[openib-general] Re: udapl copyrights and OpenIB

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:01, James Lentini wrote:
> My understanding is as follows: A copyright and a license are 
> different. A copyright gives the creator the right to license the 
> code.
>  
> > > Like other OpenIB code, the uDAPL code can be taken under either a BSD 
> > > license or GPLv2. uDAPL also allows the code to be licensed under the 
> > > Common Public License 1.0.
> > 
> > What license is actually on the uDAPL files themselves ?
> 
> The license text gives a user the option of any of the three licenses:
> 
> /*
>  * Copyright (c) 2002-2003, Network Appliance, Inc. All rights 
>  * reserved.
>  *
>  * This Software is licensed under one of the following licenses:
>  *
>  * 1) under the terms of the "Common Public License 1.0" a copy of 
>  *    which is available from the Open Source Initiative, see
>  *    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl.php.
>  *
>  * 2) under the terms of the "The BSD License" a copy of which is
>  *    available from the Open Source Initiative, see
>  *    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php.
>  *
>  * 3) under the terms of the "GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 
>  *    2" a copy of which is available from the Open Source Initiative, 
>  *    see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php.
>  *
>  * Licensee has the right to choose one of the above licenses.
>  *
>  * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>  * notice and one of the license notices.
>  *
>  * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce both the above 
>  * copyright notice, one of the license notices in the documentation
>  * and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>  */

That's fine. I didn't look closely enough. I didn't see the choices. I
thought it was the old license. Sorry.

-- Hal