[OpenAFS-devel] s390 compile option

[Adam Thornton]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:39:26AM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Adam Thornton wrote:
> 
> > anyway--I should have borrowed the memcpy code from glibc, not the
> > strncpy code from the kernel, as my template) and kernel recompilation.
> 
> You can't do this - the memcpy code in glibc is licensed under the GPL,
> and cannot be included in OpenAFS.  It would be good if folks would bear
> in mind that OpenAFS is _not_ GPL'd, and neither the gatekeepers nor the
> elders have the power to change the license.  So submitting GPL'd code
> for inclusion in OpenAFS is asking for trouble...

It never went into OpenAFS.  It went into the Linux kernel.  That is, I
rebuilt my kernel with memcpy defined as a supplied kernel function.
OpenAFS just continues to call memcpy same as it always did.

Adam