Hello, is it allowed to mirror lustre distfiles? I''m preparing Gentoo ebuilds and am not sure whether I should force users to download them manually. Also, is the license just GPL-2 or did I miss something? -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszy?ski
(I am forwarding this on behalf of Pitor, we seem to have some messages delayed to lustre-discuss atm. If you are experiencing this, sorry. Lustre-discuss is _not_ moderated, we''ve filed a bug with sysadmins.) Hello, is it allowed to mirror lustre distfiles? I''m preparing Gentoo ebuilds and am not sure whether I should force users to download them manually. Also, is the license just GPL-2 or did I miss something? -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyn''ski
On Jul 23, 2008 10:28 +0000, Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote:> is it allowed to mirror lustre distfiles? I''m preparing Gentoo ebuilds > and am not sure whether I should force users to download them > manually. > Also, is the license just GPL-2 or did I miss something?Lustre is GPL v2, you can do whatever the license allows you to do, which includes redistribution. There is already a Debian packaging of Lustre. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 02:07 -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote:> On Jul 23, 2008 10:28 +0000, Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: > > is it allowed to mirror lustre distfiles? I''m preparing Gentoo ebuilds > > and am not sure whether I should force users to download them > > manually. > > Also, is the license just GPL-2 or did I miss something? > > Lustre is GPL v2, you can do whatever the license allows you to do, > which includes redistribution. There is already a Debian packaging > of Lustre.I may have been interpreting him incorrectly but I thought his question was can he redistribute the packages we produce? i.e. download from SDLC and then host and redistribute those packages. I''m not sure that that changes Andreas'' answer or not, but just wanted to clarify. I don''t know if resulting RPMs themselves can have a licence any different than that which they package. An interesting thing to ponder. b. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20080725/2e515626/attachment.bin
Hi, On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:59:17AM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 02:07 -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2008 10:28 +0000, Piotr Jaroszy??ski wrote: > > > is it allowed to mirror lustre distfiles? I''m preparing Gentoo ebuilds > > > and am not sure whether I should force users to download them > > > manually. > > > Also, is the license just GPL-2 or did I miss something? > > > > Lustre is GPL v2, you can do whatever the license allows you to do, > > which includes redistribution. There is already a Debian packaging > > of Lustre. > > I may have been interpreting him incorrectly but I thought his question > was can he redistribute the packages we produce? i.e. download from > SDLC and then host and redistribute those packages. > > I''m not sure that that changes Andreas'' answer or not, but just wanted > to clarify. I don''t know if resulting RPMs themselves can have a > licence any different than that which they package. An interesting > thing to ponder. >I''d also like to know the legal status of redistributing the binary packages/rpms etc... I can see our site using the rpm''s in our local rpm repos for automatically updating machines and installing new machines. since we also roll our own scientificlinux site for redistribution for our users, it would be nice if we could throw lustre in as well to give people a choice. Thanks, Jimmy -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ | http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/~jtang