I realize this is a very old post, but I just got my hands
on one of these SmartRAID V cards. I was wondering if anyone
had talked to DPT regarding this situation?
I called up and talked to the regional salesperson (Becky
Sharp) who covers my area (Ohio, USA). I explained how allowing
the driver to be integrated in to the Linux distribution by making
the driver completely "free" (ie, dropping the silly license BS
that you quoted, Alan) would benefit both the Linux community
and DPT (in the form of increased usage and sales). She was
under the impression that this had already been done and upon
finding out this was not the case, seemed all for assisting the
Linux community in doing so.
Per her suggestion, I wrote a somewhat detailed email and sent
it to her for distribution to the Marketing, Development, and
Management Divisions at DPT. I reitereate she seemed more then
willing to do what she could to assist the community.
Bascially I'm just wondering if this is ground previously traveled
and Becky is just giving me a song-and-dance, or if DPT might
seriously be willing to consider dropping their non-GPLable-clause.
Naturally I would like to be able to make use of this card in current
and future boxes, but I cannot do so if a side effect is waiting for
DPT to develop drivers before I can upgrade kernels.
::: Jason A. Diegmueller
::: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
::: 513/542-1500 WORK // jason@bertke.net
::: Systems Administrator, Bertke Systems Innovations
| > Well DPT has linux drivers out for there new card. This is a very
| > sweet card it cost like $1300 - $1500. Anyway can someone
| > implement the drivers into the kernel.
| >
| > You can download the source code or patch files from here.
| > http://www.dpt.com/techsup/linuxsrc.htm
| >
| > It's for linux 2.2.5
| >
| > I patched my 2.2.10 kernel with the 2.2.5 patch and it
| works great. Be nice
| > to see it in the kernel. This card is very very sweet.
|
| It can't go into the kernel
|
| To quote:
|
| + * This information is provided for the purpose of
| recompilation of the
| + * driver code provided by Distributed Processing
| Technology only. It is
| + * NOT to be used for any other purpose.
|
| That means the driver isnt GPL licenseable
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