[OpenIndiana-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

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On 05/21/2014 10:24 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Basically GPL is an anathema to any project that doesn't share their
> ideology that ALL software must be free.

I'd probably restate that is "... must be free in the same way."

> In many ways this is actually MORE restrictive than even proprietary
> code.

I don't think its *more* restrictive than closed/proprietary code, but 
it is more restrictive than "do anything you want with it as long as you 
give us credit" code (ala BSD/MIT/...)

This said, I've found this situation to be somewhat ironic.  Maddening 
might be a better adjective though, when considering drivers.  Happily 
many OEMs are building for the BSDs, so this conversion shouldn't be too 
terrible.

To the specific case in point, we do try to work with a number of OEMs 
to get their drivers updated and into the illumos kernel.  They can 
choose to multiply license their own code (Areca does dual/multi 
licensing, adaptec does not) or not.


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