[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH 1/2] linux < 2.4 cleanup

[Russ Allbery]

Andres Salomon <andres.salomon@athenacr.com> writes:

> If the goal is to get the openafs driver accepted into the linux kernel
> (which is something I think should happen), then it's something that
> should be done.  Plenty of people don't even view openafs as a
> distributed filesystem option, since it's not in the kernel; it would be
> nice to get it in there.

I think it's very unlikely that the OpenAFS module will ever be accepted
into the kernel proper for a variety of reasons, one of the big ones being
licensing.  (It's under the IBM Public License, not the GPL.  The IBM
Public License is not GPL-compatible.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>