kAFS: was: [OpenAFS-devel] Google Summer of Code Student Introduction

[Matt Benjamin]

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Jeffrey Altman wrote:
| Harald Barth wrote:
|>
|> Take the arla kernel module, call it kAFS and most of your tasks are
|> allready done. Yes, the code is dual licensed.
|
| As far as I am aware Arla is not shipped as part of the Linux kernel and
| although it does not have the same licensing issues as OpenAFS it is
| broken by kernel revisions just as frequently as the OpenAFS module is.

Much less of Arla is in the kernel, and, also, potential for on-going
Linux breakage seems necessarily less, as Arla's kernel component may
freely use GPL-only symbols.

Also, a lot of people probably like Arla's architecture.  That could be
relevant even if you disliked Arla.  For example, I can imagine an
OpenAFS cache manager with user-space components.  I do not believe this
would necessarily present a licensing problem (then again...).

On a related note, lots of useful GPL-licensed kernel code can't seem to
make it into Linux mainline.  That theme recurs later in this thread, I
think (PAGs).  I wonder if this might present an on-going issue for kAFS?

None of the above is meant as a critique of kAFS, just thinking aloud.

Matt

| Jeffrey Altman

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