[OpenAFS-devel] keyring/pag support for linux

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> writes:
> David Howells wrote:

>> I do wonder if it'd be possible to get IBM to dual licence OpenAFS
>> (IPL/GPL).

> At this point it is not just IBM.  There have been a large number of
> contributions to OpenAFS over the last six years and not all of those
> contributions have even been under the IPL.  In order to dual license we
> would need to get approval from every contributor as well as have those
> who were unwilling to license their contribution under the IPL to do so.
> Organizations that preferred the MIT or BSD licenses have reasonable
> justification for doing so.

BSD- or MIT-licensed code should co-exist with the GPL just as easily as
with the IPL, provided it's not the four-clause BSD license.  (Not that
this changes the larger point.  Relicensing would be very difficult even
if IBM were willing to make the first step.)

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