On 11/07/2012 05:02 PM, Jon Mason wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Your company appears to be shipping kernel features in RTS OS that are >> not made available under the GPL, specifically support for the >> EXTENDED_COPY and COMPARE_AND_WRITE SCSI commands, in order to claim >> full Vmware vSphere 5 VAAI support. >> >> http://www.risingtidesystems.com/storage.html >> http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/VAAI >> >> Private emails to you and RTS CEO Marc Fleischmann have not elicited a >> useful response. >> >> You are subsystem maintainer for the in-kernel SCSI target support >> (drivers/target/*), and your company appears to be violating the GPL. > > The peanut gallery needs more information, as this is quite an > incendiary claim to be making on a Linux kernel forum. How are they > violating the GPL? I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but if > I understand the GPL correctly, RTS only needs to provide the relevant > source to their customers upon request. Are there customers (perhaps > Redhat) that they have not provided this to? If so, then they need to > be publicly shamed (gpl-violations.org would be a good place to go as > well). If not, then they are within their rights to behave the way > they are currently behaving. > > Again, we need more info before we start flinging the tomatoes at them. Look at the marketing material on their website. They demonstrate how RTS OS fully implements vSphere 5 VAAI features. We know to a very high certainty that this must have been implemented with kernel code, so therefore this must be a GPL violation, since these changes have not been made public. -- Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
