[OpenAFS-devel] s390 compile option

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Adam Thornton wrote:

> 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.

Hm.  I see; I misinterpreted your earlier message.
Of course, the point is still valid for other cases...

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA