From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: calling oem sal functions
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:21:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040819192102.A11978@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4124E222.2080105@intel.com>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 01:18:03PM -0500, Robin Holt wrote:
> If you make them GPL, it makes the call useless to SGI. Some of our
> tests suites have the problem description we are testing for and the
> resolution. This may include vendor specific or customer specific
> data which is not disclosable. Some of the vendor specific tests are
> likewise covered by NDA. I understand you would love to have
> everything _GPL, but that is unreasonable.
Huh? As long as you use your testsuite only internally the GPL doesn't
matter. It only kicks in as soon as you distribute something.
> Tony, please carefully consider the _GPL.
This is talking directly to the SAL layer, something that should
be reserved to OS internals.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-19 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-19 17:23 calling oem sal functions Tony Luck
2004-08-19 17:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-19 18:18 ` Robin Holt
2004-08-19 18:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-19 18:29 ` Dean Nelson
2004-08-19 18:48 ` Jack Steiner
2004-08-19 19:48 ` Robin Holt
2004-08-19 22:14 ` John Lee
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