On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:58:14AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Generally speaking, if they have modified CDDL files in the course of > adding support, then they are obliged to make their changes to those files > available to their customers (which in the case of a free download can be > *anyone*.) That has to be under the terms of the CDDL as well, so those > changes could be upstreamed. However, it is not necessarily the case that > the changes are complete -- the way they did VAAI for example, they > modified a CDDL file to leave a call site behind, but kept the actual > implementation in closed source form. > > (For the record, I argued against that approach
<SNIP!> So did others, and those others eventually won. 4.0.1 (per the nexentastor.org page previously referenced) has had VAAI moved into the open-sourceable repo. This repo will be updated no later than when 4.0.1 GAs/FCSes/whatever-you-call-shipping. Oh, this applies to SMB2 as well. :) Dan ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
