[Info-vax] VAFS, GFS2 and the GPL, was: Re: VSI OpenVMS Roadmap: V9.2 is x86-64 only

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-10-08 kl. 14:20, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2020-10-01, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2020-09-30, Stephane Tougard <stephane at sdf.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> GFS2 seems to be GPL2, which means that it can not be included inside a
>>> non free kernel.
>>>
>>
>> I've just sent email to VSI asking them how they intend to handle
>> this problem, since I am no closer to understanding how you can insert
>> GPL V2 code directly into the VMS kernel in a way that complies with
>> the GPL V2 licence terms.
>>
>> I'm assuming VSI have a valid and possibly creative answer. I'm just
>> no closer to seeing what that answer is.
>>
>> I'll post a response here if I get a reply.
>>
> 
> Just to let people know: so far, I have not had any reply from VSI.
> 
> I asked again yesterday in case the original query had been forgotten
> about, but I have not heard anything back from that either.
> 
> I, for one, would like to know how VSI have achieved this. It could
> make for quite an interesting discussion.
> 
> Simon.
> 

I do not understand why you expect that VSI would reply to you about this.