Hey Dave, On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 12:52 -0700, Dave Love wrote: > Al Chu <[email protected]> writes: > > > GPL and the CDDL (the Sun license) have incompatibilities with each > > other (see http://*www.*gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html), which is why > > I did it this way. However, it appears the incompatibilities may exist > > only w/ linking and not with code. So presumably I could copy the code > > in. But I'm not sure. I've been trying to figure this out, but as you > > can expect, licenses are hard to understand :-) I'll ask around, see if > > I can tweak this or not. > > Sure if it was CDDL code, you couldn't distribute it to combine with > GPL'ed code unless the copyright holders on all the GPL code allowed an > exception. However, as I understand it, a header with no code isn't a > problem. Anyway, what I pointed to is BSD-ish, not CDDL, which is why I > think there's no problem -- you'd just need to add the copyright notice > at most. That version is trivially different to the one in OpenSolaris.
Ahh! That was a subtlety I missed before. There is the bmc_intf.h from OpenSolaris and the bmc_intf.h from ipmitool. I had always assumed ipmitool copied it from OpenSolaris and thus both were CDDL. But that is not the case. Ipmitool's bmc_intf.h appears to be "forked" from an earlier version, so I could freely use that version. Thanks for the catch. I'll look into it a bit more deeply. Assuming no snags, I can copy that file in. I'll make a beta, and if you have the chance, could you try out the beta for me? Al > > Hmmm. I think the reason it fails like that on Linux is b/c /dev/bmc > > doesn't exist. This is in contrast to Solaris where /dev/bmc does > > exist, but something doesn't allow the code to work with it (thus > > "device not found" would not be a good error code). Looking through the > > error code list, IPMI_ERR_DEVICE_NOT_SUPPORTED is probably the better > > one. Sound like a good error code to change to? > > Right, that sounds right -- definitely better than an internal error. > If you can just distribute the header, it's moot anyway. > > For what it's worth, here's the meat of the licence on bmc_intf.h from > ipmitool: > > * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions > * are met: > * > * Redistribution of source code must retain the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > * > * Redistribution in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
