On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 5:26 PM Jeffrey E Altman jaltman@auristor.com wrote:
On 5/22/2021 5:51 PM, redbaronbrowser at protonmail.com (redbaronbrowser) wrote:
It would be nice if the largest contributor of code to OpenAFS (some
company called "IBM/Red Hat") could work towards relicensing under the GPLv2.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Altman
CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel I am happy to report that IBM Legal has approved a request to re-license the original 31 October 2000 IBM DeveloperWorks OpenAFS 1.0 distribution under GPLv2. The announcement was made today by Todd deSantis of IBM's AFS Support organization in an e-mail to the OpenAFS Developer's mailing list.
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2021-June/020707.html
This announcement is the result of more than a decade of behind the scene efforts. Yet it is just the first step in the journey that the OpenAFS community must complete before a GPLv2 OpenAFS Linux kernel module can be distributed.
Ya!! Thanks to you, and all the others that worked on this. I know there is much more work to do, but at least you can now start doing it.
Troy