Messages in this thread | | | From | Shreyas Bhatewara <> | Date | Thu, 6 May 2010 00:25:20 -0700 | Subject | RE: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Feldman [mailto:scofeldm@cisco.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:04 PM > To: Shreyas Bhatewara; Arnd Bergmann; Dmitry Torokhov > Cc: Christoph Hellwig; pv-drivers@vmware.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; virtualization@lists.linux- > foundation.org; Pankaj Thakkar > Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for > vmxnet3 > > On 5/5/10 10:29 AM, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@vmware.com> wrote: > > > It would not be a binary blob but software properly released under > GPL. > > The current plan is for the shell to enforce GPL requirement on the > > plugin code, similar to what module loaded does for regular kernel > > modules. > > On 5/5/10 3:05 PM, "Shreyas Bhatewara" <sbhatewara@vmware.com> wrote: > > > The plugin image is not linked against Linux kernel. It is OS > agnostic infact > > (Eg. same plugin works for Linux and Windows VMs) > > Are there any issues with injecting the GPL-licensed plug-in into the > Windows vmxnet3 NDIS driver? > > -scott
Scott, Thanks for pointing out. This issue can be resolved by adding exception to the plugin license which allows it to link to a non-free program .(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF)
->Shreyas
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