Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps

[Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:18:14AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley
> > <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy
> >> distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real
> >> problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is
> >> just to dual licence the incompatible component.
> >
> > Just one point here - we're not able to dual license
> > Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many
> > contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later
> > licensing in order for this to be possible for us.
> >
> > I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might
> > be easier.
> 
> As someone who has worked for companies that distribute Samba for
> quite a while I cannot see us distributing fio. Rather, we would use
> it as a performance testing tool.
> 
> That being the case, the license differences are not a problem.
> 
> Am I missing something here?

No, it's only a problem for distributors, so it's
much less of a problem than it might be.

But it's still a problem I'd rather not have to
think about :-).