Re: Re: OpenSS7 GPL'd LiS.

Dave,

It would help if they (dlpi, npi, tpi) conformed to the X/Open
specifications.  The strxnet package replaces these headers
because they do no conform.  One could include the fixed ones
from strxnet, but they have been released under GPL.  Perhaps
Ragnar would care to fix them.

--brian

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dave Grothe wrote:

> 
>    At 04:35 PM 4/12/2005, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> 
>      Ragnar,
>      Please do not include our strxnet package, our inet driver or
>      our working timod/tirdwr modules.  They are (and have always
>      been) GPL code.  There has always been a confusion since it was
>      inluded in LiS, as some companies have been using it believing
>      that it is under the terms of the LGPL when it is not.
> 
>    Mere  aggregation  is  not  a  violation  of  the license.  Ragnar can
>    include  this  stuff  if  he  wants  to.  I gave up on it due to build
>    problems on various platforms that would cause LiS not to install just
>    because strxnet would fail to compile.
> 
>      It would probably be a good idea to remove cdi, dlpi, npi, tpi
>      and xti header files as nothing else uses them and they conflict
>      with release packages.
> 
>    This  is  just the kind of thing that the Linux kernel guys did.  They
>    removed  kernel  exported  symbols,  thus  deleting functions from the
>    kernel  DKI, just because no driver in the kernel source tree used the
>    symbols.
>    Do  what  you  like,  but  there  are drivers out there that use those
>    header files.  They just happen not to be included in the LiS source.
>    -- Dave

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