Re: adaptec 2120S software under RedHat 8.0 and FC2

Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-28T21:57:47Z

> > note that if adaptec simply opensourced their managment tools we
> wouldn't
> > have this problem at all. I wonder why Adaptec did that for the old
> > i2o-based controllers but not aacraid.
>
> Oh yes, that, worked hard on the powers-that-be to permit this. Could
> not release a substantial majority of it because it would violate
> licensed libraries (Zinc, being one of them, I am sorry to admit). So we
> release the engine and the raidutil. No logger, no remote communication
> engine, no GUI and no browser engine either. It was the best we could
> do.

Which is more than enough.

> Once released, and under a BSD license, the open source community failed
> to contribute one change to the sources. All it did was permit the tools
> to be packaged, archived and to continue in-perpetuity when
> compatibility libraries failed to work on newer installations.

Which is exactly what we need. We don't need gazillions of new features
but code that can be carried forward easily and fixed where nessecary.