From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Disable SCSI-Reservation at the driver level ? Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:18:12 +0000 Message-ID: <20061127171812.GA9185@infradead.org> References: <1456266874@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:14817 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758451AbWK0RSN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:18:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1456266874@web.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: devzero@web.de Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:45:42AM +0100, devzero@web.de wrote: > > And more. It's in fact one of the most blatant violations of the > > Linux 2.4 kernel copyrights. Don't expect support if you use such > > an illegal product. > > really? > this is the first time i hear that ESX is an "illegal" product from the point of view of the kernel community. > afaik, the esx kernel (vmnix) is a completely different product and for example, the source of the linux drivers they have modified to run under ESX are made available for download, as GPL tells them to do. > > what`s the problem here? It's a modified linux kernel with hooks for a big binary module that takes over part of the control. It's rather hard to argue that it's not a derived work. Especially as they reuse various I/O subsystem of the kernel that has been parasited. > can you provide a link to some thread where this has been discussed? I don't think so. > something to be resolved with the help of gpl-violations.org ? I haven't found any evidence that they are using enough code that gpl-violations.org has the right to defend.