[CentOS-devel] [EXT] Re: RFC: kmods SIG Proposal

Fri May 21 11:01:04 UTC 2021
Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 6:36 AM Alex Iribarren <alex.m.lists3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 5/20/21 8:33 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >>>>> I'm a bit concerned that "non compatible license" is a bit vague.
> >>>>> Would this exclude DRBD, ZFS on Linux, OpenAFS, or nVidia?  The nVidia
> >>>>> bits seem to be 'yes, it is excluded', I'm less sure on the other two.
> >>>>
> >>>> Concerning your examples: Afaik the CDDL (ZFS) is considered a free
> >>>> software license by the FSF. So I assume this should be fine.
> >>>> The nVidia bits are probably not allowed.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> OpenZFS has not been allowed per Red Hat Legal, so I don't think you
> >>> can do that.
> >>
> >> Well, as I said: I'm not a lawyer :)
> >> But good to know, thanks!
> >>
> >> Does this mean that legally the same restrictions that apply to getting
> >> a package into RHEL also apply to packages provided by a CentOS SIG?
> >>
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Do you know if OpenAFS would also be excluded from this SIG? We
> currently build the kmods ourselves for each kernel release but we would
> love to be able to push that upstream.
>

Unfortunately, yes. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#IBMPL

Though at least that one seems to have hope to be replaced with one
built into Linux in the near future:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/fs/afs




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