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

Tue May 25 13:29:15 UTC 2021
Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:05 AM Patrick Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 23:24 +0200, Peter Georg wrote:
> > On 24/05/2021 22.32, Patrick Riehecky wrote:
> > > I'm loving the ideas/thoughts/etc here!
> > >
> > > Perhaps, we could add a Roadmap item for non-GPLv2 stuff?
> > > Personally,
> > > there are just a few items that I'd love to have which are not
> > > GPLv2.
> > > I'd hate to block on sorting this out now, when I suspect there
> > > will be
> > > some more input/concerns/etc.
> > >
> > > Pat
> >
> > Just to clarify: non-GPLv2 stuff is part of the proposal. But even
> > the
> > the discussion with Neal Gompa).
> >
> > These modules are indeed not mentioned explicitely on the roadmap,
> > but
> > are included in the third point "Provide packages for further
> > beneficial
> > point with improved wording or add an additional point to the
> > Roadmap.
> >
> > What are the non GPLv2 items you are interested in?
> > All the non-GPLv2 stuff I'm interested in is sadly out due to the
> > restriction to GPLv2 compatible licenses.
> >
>
> The two modules non-GPLv2 modules I'd probably get the most use out of
> are ZFS on Linux and the nVidia display module.
>

ZoL produces kmod packages themselves and continuously integrates
against CentOS Stream already. NVIDIA is doing their own kmod builds
for RHEL and derivatives too.



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