I don't know for certain if GPLv3 is an acceptable license for the files in an in-tree FSAL. Probably? Any NFS-Ganesha common files or changes to same need to be under our prevailing license (or a successor license, but I don't believe we have that clause), of course.
Matt On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Jonathan Dieter <jdie...@lesbg.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 07:34 -0500, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: >> On 01/18/2018 03:23 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote: >> > What is the best way for me to include NFS Ganesha support in LizardFS? >> > 1. Include the latest Fedora NFS Ganesha source and add a hard requires >> > to that version in the LizardFS NFS subpackage. >> > 2. Convince the LizardFS developers to try to move their FSAL into NFS >> > Ganesha? (LizardFS has just added a client library and doesn't have >> > a server library, so this will probably take some work) >> >> That would be the path of least resistance. And the one I would suggest >> and highly recommend. If they've already written a FSAL it should be >> easy to add it to the nfs-ganesha source. >> >> Depending on the license of course. > > If this is both the easiest and the recommended path, then lets see if > the LizardFS developers will go for it. The license for this code is > GPLv3. > >> > 3. Convince the NFS Ganesha developers to create a library that you can >> > compile FSAL's against? (The last thread I saw in the NFS Ganesha >> > devel list on this subject was six years old) >> >> That would be a non-trivial amount of work with little benefit to the >> current FSAL developers. >> >> It's not an unreasonable request, per se, but we have other, higher >> priorities. > > I totally understand that. > >> > 4. ??? >> > >> > Any advice would be great, as I'd love to get this feature into >> > Fedora's release of LizardFS. >> >> Do you have a contact for someone at LizardFS? I looked at their web >> site and nothing popped out at me. > > The main developer that I've communicated with is: > Piotr Sarna <sa...@skytechnology.pl> > > Jonathan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Nfs-ganesha-devel mailing list > Nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs-ganesha-devel -- Matt Benjamin Red Hat, Inc. 315 West Huron Street, Suite 140A Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage tel. 734-821-5101 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Nfs-ganesha-devel mailing list Nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs-ganesha-devel
