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From: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Subject: scsi target, likely GPL violation
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:50:35 -0800
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To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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Nick,

Your company appears to be shipping kernel features in RTS OS that are
not made available under the GPL, specifically support for the
EXTENDED_COPY and COMPARE_AND_WRITE SCSI commands, in order to claim
full Vmware vSphere 5 VAAI support.

http://www.risingtidesystems.com/storage.html
http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/VAAI

Private emails to you and RTS CEO Marc Fleischmann have not elicited a
useful response.

You are subsystem maintainer for the in-kernel SCSI target support
(drivers/target/*), and your company appears to be violating the GPL.
Please explain.

Regards -- Andy