From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753698Ab2KGQuk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 11:50:40 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40880 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751346Ab2KGQui (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2012 11:50:38 -0500 Message-ID: <509A915B.30105@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:50:35 -0800 From: Andy Grover Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.7) Gecko/20120825 Thunderbird/10.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" CC: target-devel , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Marc Fleischmann , Nicholas Bellinger Subject: scsi target, likely GPL violation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick, Your company appears to be shipping kernel features in RTS OS that are not made available under the GPL, specifically support for the EXTENDED_COPY and COMPARE_AND_WRITE SCSI commands, in order to claim full Vmware vSphere 5 VAAI support. http://www.risingtidesystems.com/storage.html http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/VAAI Private emails to you and RTS CEO Marc Fleischmann have not elicited a useful response. You are subsystem maintainer for the in-kernel SCSI target support (drivers/target/*), and your company appears to be violating the GPL. Please explain. Regards -- Andy