Re: nfs-utils-1.2.0 released.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 12:05 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> The main reason for this release was the updated
> RPC licenses that were worked out with Sun Microsystems
> 
> A while back it was notice that some of the copyrights
> in nfs-utils were a bit GPL incompatible. So working with
> Sun all the RPC licenses were replaced with BSD licenses
> which are a bit more GPL compatible.
> 
> Note: all of the licenses in both rpcbind and libtirpc have
> also been updated. 
> 
> steved.
> 
> The tarball can be found at:
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/nfs/
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs
> 
> The git tree is at:
>    git://linux-nfs.org/nfs-utils
> 
> The change log:
> 
> commit 6b7ad21f8162ec85766fd1369ea13ab432e287f8
> Author: Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jun 2 10:43:05 2009 -0400
> 
>     Replace the Sun RPC license with the BSD license,
>     with the explicit permission of Sun Microsystems
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wow... That is good news, but it would have been nice to have seen a
signed-off-by from someone at Sun on this change, just for documentation
purposes...

Cheers
  Trond

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux USB Development]     [Linux Media Development]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Info]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux