Re: targetcli -fb now also Apache 2.0 licensed

From: Andy Grover
Date: Wed Jul 24 2013 - 20:06:59 EST


On 07/24/2013 01:54 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
Yes, which is why I've been accepting his kernel patches the entire time
that user-space has been forked into -fb. Now that the user-space code
has been relicensed as promised, there is no longer any reason for a
separate -fb fork to exist.

That said, it's time to start moving forward toward a single set of
source trees for upstream userspace, so that all distributions can
mutually benefit from the effort. As mentioned above, this has so far
not been enough to get -fb reconciled with upstream.

So I don't consider the above 'holding for ransom' or any nonsense like
that, considering the end goal is for everyone (not just Fedora) to
benefit from -fb.

There's nothing stopping any other distro (or commercial entity) from adopting targetcli-fb. I don't know why they haven't, except that there's a default attitude that the originator of the project is the "upstream" forever.

I think I've done a pretty good job maintaining -fb over the past two years -- -fb has bug tracking, a list, tarballs, and is actively maintained and improved, all things that are not true of upstream.

My question to you (Nick) is, why don't we all just unify on -fb?

Regards -- Andy
(at oscon this week, replies may be delayed)

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