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Bug#572458: ITP: hbaapi -- SNIA HBAAPI library



Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

> The Host Bus Adapter API (Applications Programming Interface) is a
> C-level project to manage Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters.
> ..
> This package is required for FCoE
> ..
> Couldn't find the complete license on the homepage. There is one on
> Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/SNIA_Public_License

If I remember right that license information is based on some post of one of the
authors on some mailinglist, or something similar. If necessary I can dig for
it. Also I think the code is not really maintained.
The other thing you should do is to provide a hbaapi-source package, as hbaapi
is necessary for thinkgs like hbaping, which needs proprietary binary libraries
to be useful with some FC cards. Having a -source image would make it more easy
to build appropriate packages, may be for non-free.


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