On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Adam Števko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to ask older members of the community few questions: > > 1) Fuse is fully working on illumos, but the kernel module is not present in > vanilla illumos-gate. I wanted to ask on a short history of fuse in > OpenSolaris/early illumos days. Why it wasn’t never integrated? > 2) Are there any technical or political reasons why fuse shouldn’t be in > gate? The source > (https://github.com/jurikm/illumos-fusefs/blob/master/kernel/fuse_kernel.h) > is CDDL-licensed Only single file seems to have mentions of GPL > (https://github.com/jurikm/illumos-fusefs/blob/master/kernel/fuse_kernel.h). > Can that be a strong reason why fuse shouldn’t be integrated? I’d like a > simple answer what should gate contribution look like license-wise.
As far as I know, nobody has done the actual legwork to request integration yet. It's also a large amount of code to review. Gordon wrote a second FUSE implementation, which is also still sitting around: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2012/02/sort/thread/page/13/entry/15:1080/20120211170222:11914EA8-54FC-11E1-87ED-A46E0E381E02/ > 3) tun/tap driver is pretty common (used mostly by OpenVPN). It would help, > if tuntap (https://github.com/kaizawa/tuntap) was a part of the gate itself. > However, tuntap seems to be fully GPL-licensed. Is this a blocker for > integration? > Yes. The GPL is a definite problem for any kernel modules. While some software like GRUB is in the gate (after a legal review), it's generally not preferred. Thanks, -Albert ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
