On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 5:26 PM Jeffrey E Altman <jaltman at 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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210611/de4f1cde/attachment-0005.html>