[OpenAFS-devel] keyring/pag support for linux

[David Howells]

Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> > Feel free.  I'm sure he (dwmw2@redhat.com) would enjoy flaming you back.
> 
> Should I smell conspiracy in the fact that he is a contributor to kAFS?
> In particular it could be construed easily as "I will screw your competing
> implementation". Maybe there's a better story than that. I'd like to hear it.

His contribution was quite minor and right at the beginning.  No, he's dead
set against non-GPL modules full stop - *whatever* they are.

> > However, the net result would probably be counterproductive for OpenAFS.
> 
> Sure. And Troy can't commit, isn't an elder, and thus can't really speak for
> the project, either, and yet, lots of people who don't have had their comments
> interpreted as holding some weight and things have been counterproductive for
> it. So, if he can basically cause us problems by speaking his opinion, that
> speaks for the fragility of what's going on.

My point is that he can go further than that and try to make sure that you
can't load the OpenAFS module into the Linux kernel at all, and that any
changes I make to make things easier for OpenAFS get reverted or GPL-only'd.

David