On 12/19/13, 4:09 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:58:14AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Generally speaking, if they have modified CDDL files in the course of
>> adding support, then they are obliged to make their changes to those files
>> available to their customers (which in the case of a free download can be
>> *anyone*.)  That has to be under the terms of the CDDL as well, so those
>> changes could be upstreamed. However, it is not necessarily the case that
>> the changes are complete -- the way they did VAAI for example, they
>> modified a CDDL file to leave a call site behind, but kept the actual
>> implementation in closed source form.
>>
>> (For the record, I argued against that approach
> 
> <SNIP!>
> 
> So did others, and those others eventually won.
> 
> 4.0.1 (per the nexentastor.org page previously referenced) has had VAAI moved
> into the open-sourceable repo.  This repo will be updated no later than when
> 4.0.1 GAs/FCSes/whatever-you-call-shipping.
> 
> Oh, this applies to SMB2 as well.  :)

I tip my hat to you guys, great work!

Cheers,
-- 
Saso


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