linux-kernel - scsi target, likely GPL violation

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Message-ID: <509A915B.30105@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:50:35 -0800
From:	Andy Grover <agrover@...hat.com>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
CC:	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Fleischmann <mwf@...ingtidesystems.com>,
	Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ingtidesystems.com>
Subject: scsi target, likely GPL violation

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
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