Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:20:22PM +0000, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:

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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
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