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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hello Doug,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks for the summary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">From our (IBM) side, we are good to go with a
<b>BSD 3 Clause</b> license. A GPL based license would instead require legal approval before we contribute any code. Given the nature of this project, I would personally avoid having to go through the legal ordeal for getting the dual licensing approved and
instead opt for a BSD 3 Clause only licence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I re-confirm we are fine with the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Developer Certificate of Origin as a mean for developers to accept the license terms. We should probably have a specific mention of this in our repositories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Christian</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Christian Pinto, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ofmfwg <ofmfwg-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org> on behalf of Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 20 October 2023 at 17:01<br>
<b>To: </b>ofmfwg@lists.openfabrics.org <ofmfwg@lists.openfabrics.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [Ofmfwg] Sunfish licensing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">As per our meeting today, these are the licensing terms the group identified as the most optimal: BSD 3 Clause The license can be found here: BSD 3 Clause (SPDX:
BSD-3-Claus) https: //opensource. org/license/bsd-3-clause/ For managing contributions
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As per our meeting today, these are the licensing terms the group identified as the most optimal:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BSD 3 Clause<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The license can be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">BSD 3 Clause (SPDX: BSD-3-Claus)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/">https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For managing contributions to the repositories, we selected the Developer Certificate of Origin (aka, Signed-off-by:) as the means by which we ensure that all incoming contributions are licensed under the
same terms as the rest of the repository and that we have clear copyright permissions to use the contributions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">These are the code repositories we propose to cover under these license terms and what they are intended to be used for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailsignatureprefix"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sunfish_library_reference - Intended to be a linkable library or consumable code such as a python module. It is our intent that this can be used by any vendor without requiring
that their use of this code obligates them to release their own internal source code to the public by virtue of linking with or using our code</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailsignatureprefix"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sunfish_agent_reference - Intended to be a standalone RESTful API server suitable for embedding on a microcontroller that implements the Sunfish reference model. It is our
intent that this can be used by any vendor without requiring that their use of this code obligates them to release their own internal source code to the public by virtue of linking with or using our code</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailsignatureprefix"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sunfish_server_reference - Intended to be a program runnable on a standard computing device that is able to scour a fabric looking for standalone agents and provide a unified
view of what the sum total of available resources are and provides a single point of management for those agents via a RESTful API.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<span class="gmailsignatureprefix">It is our intent that this can be used by any vendor without requiring that their use of this code obligates them to release their own internal source code to the public by virtue of linking with or using our code</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailsignatureprefix"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">sunfish_manager_reference - Intended to provide a GUI management interface on top of the sunfish_server_reference.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<span class="gmailsignatureprefix">It is our intent that this can be used by any vendor without requiring that their use of this code obligates them to release their own internal source code to the public by virtue of linking with or using our code</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmailsignatureprefix"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please take these terms back to your company's legal department and make sure that these terms are acceptable for your company to be able to participate in these projects.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Doug Ledford <<a href="mailto:dledford@redhat.com" target="_blank">dledford@redhat.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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