[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] drop mthca from svn?
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Mon Aug 28 12:03:40 PDT 2006
Roland Dreier wrote:
> James> If the code is moved, how can the OpenFabrics community be
> James> guaranteed that the entire software stack will remain under
> James> a dual BSD/GPL license?
>
> You can't guarantee that someone won't come along and write some IB
> driver and get it merged upstream without a BSD license. So there's
> not much we can do anyway.
Such a driver wouldn't be an OpenFabrics driver though.
My only concern with this is its effect on backport patches, since most users
are not running the later kernels. I think only using the kernel org tree is
ideal for the more mature code though. Developing code still requires a
separate repository.
- Sean
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