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[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freehoo-devel] Re: freeipmi and GNU


From: Anand Babu
Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freehoo-devel] Re: freeipmi and GNU
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:27:53 -0800
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> Questionnaire
> =============
>
> * General Information
> ** Package name and version:

FreeIPMI 0.1.0 (Alpha-4 QA-1)


> ** Author <Email>:

Anand Babu <address@hidden>


> ** URL to home page (if any):

http://www.nongnu.org/freehoo/


> ** URL to sources (if any):

ftp://ftp.californiadigital.com/pub/freeipmi/


> ** Brief description of the package:

FreeIPMI is a programmable/extensible system for building intelligent
platform management applications. This system includes its own portable
implementation of user-space device drivers and implements IPMI 1.5
specification.

Supports 
 - C library interface (libfreeipmi).
 - Shell with readline interface (fish - freeipmi shell).
 - Scheme based scripting interface.

Utilities and extensions like "sensors", "bmc-config", "ipmi-sel",
"rmcp-ping", "ipmi-power" are already built on top of this system.


> * Code
> ** Dependencies:
>     Please list the package's dependencies (source language, libraries, etc.).

- libguile
- libreadline


> ** Configuration & compilation:
>     It might or might not use Autoconf/Automake, but it should meet GNU
>     Standards.  See http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_48.html.

Yes it uses GNU Autoconf/Automake.


> ** Documentation:
>     We recommend using Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)
>     for documentation, and writing both reference and tutorial
>     information in the same manual.  Please see
>     http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_32.html.

Yes it uses GNU Texinfo. 


> * Licensing:
>    This is crucial.  Both the software itself *and all dependencies*
>    (third-party libraries, etc.) must be free software in order to be
>    included in GNU.  
>    
>    Please see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a
>    practical guide to which licenses are free (for GNU's purposes) and
>    which are not.  Please give specific url's to any licenses involved
>    that are not listed on that page.

Freehoo and all its dependencies are licensed under GNU GPL

> * Similar projects:
>    Please search at least the
>    Free Software Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/) 
>    and savannah.gnu.org (http://savannah.gnu.org/search/)
>    for projects similar to yours.  If any exist,
>    please explain what motivated you to write yours and what the
>    principal differences are.

No projects listed in http://www.gnu.org/directory/ and
http://savannah.gnu.org/search/.

How ever there are source-forge projects:
 - Open IPMI (Linux kernel module)
 - IPMItool (uses Open IPMI driver)
 - Panicsel IPMI Project (uses Open IPMI driver)
 - IPMI on FreeBSD 
 - ipmitools (uses Open IPMI driver)


FreeIPMI vs Others:
-------------------
- More features.
- Better by design.
    * User space portable implementation of device drivers. Designed
       with GNU/Hurd in mind.
    * Extensible system.
    * Scripting, Shell and C API interfaces.
- Actively developed and supported by California Digital
  (californiadigital.com), LLNL (llnl.gov) and Intel (intel.com).
- Tested on IA64, IA32 and AMD64 architectures.
- Already in use by a large super computer (4096 64-bit Itanium2
  processors with 8TB RAM) and many corporate data centers (like GE,
  Synopsys ...)





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