On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:49:50AM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote: > The easiest way to end up with a module which will load and work is just > to run "make" in the powerswitch directory after you untar the source. > RedHat have tweaked the kernel source so that you get compile options set > to build modules which exactly match your running kernel (google for > MODVERSIONS to find out exactly how this works). That'll work for you in > this case, but makes it much harder to build modules to match kernels or > architectures other than the build machine and its running kernel.
Right. I saw the note accompanying the freeswan modules, saying that there were problems with auto-selection. Sounds as if it would be difficult to distribute a powerswitch rpm as anything other than a source rpm. > I've knocked up a spec file for building RPMs, but I notice that the > powerswitch source tarball does not come with any license. This means that > I cannot redistribute the source (and neither can you), nor build binaries > RPMs and distribute them. It would be breach of copyright if we did. I talked about that to Joris and he said: "I believe there is a line in the README file which states that it can be used and copied freely. That should make it quite clear that it is allowed to distribute the code. I used to like the GPL a lot, but I'm a bit disappointed about the way it's being used lately (making certain kernel symbols only visible to GPL modules etc)." The documentation with version 1.5 says "This program is freeware; you may use, modify and/or distribute it without restriction." That's unambiguous enougn, I think. > > Please contact the author and ask him to rebundle the source code with a > free license (preferably GPL, which we are certain is compatible with the > linux kernel license). Let me know when he has done so and I will build > and publish my RPMs. Ah, that would be good. I'll look forward to inspecting the source rpm to see how I should have done it. -- Bruce Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists against the ignorant. -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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