From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:59:10 -0600 Message-ID: <20160914225910.GB3567@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1473655766-31628-1-git-send-email-aditr@vmware.com> <20160912180251.GH5843@obsidianresearch.com> <20160914173636.GA10309@obsidianresearch.com> <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14CE8@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com> <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14D3E@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14D3E-8oqHQFITsIFqS6EAlXoojrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Woodruff, Robert J" Cc: Adit Ranadive , "dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , pv-drivers , "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-pci-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "Jorgen S. Hansen" , Aditya Sarwade , George Zhang , Bryan Tan List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:20:22PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > >this new scheme works with >kernel.org 4.8, then it is possible > >that it could go into that OFED-4.8 Release, but again, we are > >still looking at the new scheme and evaluating how it affects >the > >community OFED. > > One other question. Jason, the OFA (and its members) want to > maintain the dual-license (BSD/GPL) for the code, as is the case for > all the code that was in the OFA git trees on the OFA server that > you pulled from. The code in the OFA trees has a mixture of licenses. It is all GPLv2 compatible for sure, but there are at least three variations of the 'BSD' license. As far as I know, only the 2 clause OpenIB.org BSD license is approved for use in OFA projects. Someone from the board could correct me if I am wrong. This means the 3 projects with the BSD patent clause, hosted on the OFA servers, were already not conforming. As is Intels HFI1 driver which uses a three clause BSD license. > package follows that licensing model for accepting any new code into > that combined repo ? As with the kernel we'd discourage 're-licensing' existing files. However, since this is not a OFA project, I, personally, would not turn away a GPLv2 compatible contribution, but I am proposing that the 'default' license for the project be OFA compatible. I think license enforcement of its members falls to the OFA. Doug may feel differently. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from quartz.orcorp.ca ([184.70.90.242]:51571 "EHLO quartz.orcorp.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761706AbcINW7Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:59:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:59:10 -0600 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: "Woodruff, Robert J" Cc: Adit Ranadive , "dledford@redhat.com" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , pv-drivers , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "Jorgen S. Hansen" , Aditya Sarwade , George Zhang , Bryan Tan Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver Message-ID: <20160914225910.GB3567@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1473655766-31628-1-git-send-email-aditr@vmware.com> <20160912180251.GH5843@obsidianresearch.com> <20160914173636.GA10309@obsidianresearch.com> <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14CE8@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com> <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14D3E@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <9C6B67F36DCAFC479B1CF6A967258A8C7DE14D3E@ORSMSX115.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:20:22PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > >this new scheme works with >kernel.org 4.8, then it is possible > >that it could go into that OFED-4.8 Release, but again, we are > >still looking at the new scheme and evaluating how it affects >the > >community OFED. > > One other question. Jason, the OFA (and its members) want to > maintain the dual-license (BSD/GPL) for the code, as is the case for > all the code that was in the OFA git trees on the OFA server that > you pulled from. The code in the OFA trees has a mixture of licenses. It is all GPLv2 compatible for sure, but there are at least three variations of the 'BSD' license. As far as I know, only the 2 clause OpenIB.org BSD license is approved for use in OFA projects. Someone from the board could correct me if I am wrong. This means the 3 projects with the BSD patent clause, hosted on the OFA servers, were already not conforming. As is Intels HFI1 driver which uses a three clause BSD license. > package follows that licensing model for accepting any new code into > that combined repo ? As with the kernel we'd discourage 're-licensing' existing files. However, since this is not a OFA project, I, personally, would not turn away a GPLv2 compatible contribution, but I am proposing that the 'default' license for the project be OFA compatible. I think license enforcement of its members falls to the OFA. Doug may feel differently. Jason