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From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:18:14 -0800
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Cc: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@sernet.de>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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To: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:34 AM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
>>
>> That's one of these pointless licensing complexities that annoy
>> distributions so much ... they're both open source, so there's no real
>> problem except the licence incompatibility. The usual way out of it is
>> just to dual licence the incompatible component.
>
> Just one point here - we're not able to dual license
> Samba to go back to GPLv2 anything. There are too many
> contributors to this who have contributed under v3-or-later
> licensing in order for this to be possible for us.
>
> I'm hoping adding the 'or-later' clause to fio might
> be easier.

As someone who has worked for companies that distribute Samba for
quite a while I cannot see us distributing fio. Rather, we would use
it as a performance testing tool.

That being the case, the license differences are not a problem.

Am I missing something here?

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