On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 07:02, Patrick McHardy wrote:

This patch is a port of HFSC from altq to Linux 2.6. HFSC is a
hierarchical packet scheduler which allows flexible resource
allocation by decoupling of bandwidth and delay. The original
version and a paper describing HFSC can be found here:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html .

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I think it is a good idea to have this in the kernel. Glad someone
eventually got to it.

The last issue is the License: The altq version is released under a
BSD-style License without advertising clause (the original authors
kindly agreed to remove it). It is my understanding that this is
compatible with the GPL, and because the code includes some minor
amounts of GPL'ed code the correct License is GPL and not
Dual BSD/GPL. I would be glad if someone can confirm that this is
correct.

This is probably the most contentious issue (given say current SCO
stoopidty).
Have you talked to the original author on this? I think granting you
written consent to move to GPL may be sufficient.

cheers,
jamal

PS:- i will look at the code and give you some feedback.