From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:21:02 +0000 Subject: Re: calling oem sal functions Message-Id: <20040819192102.A11978@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <4124E222.2080105@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4124E222.2080105@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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.