[openib-general] PathScale license

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:02:55PM -0800, Johann George wrote:
> We have heard the issues that have been raised regarding the PathScale
> license.  PathScale's intent is solely to protect its hardware IP and not to
> limit use of the software in any way.
> 
> PathScale's use of this language is not original.  SGI has used, and perhaps
> originated, the additional language.  It currently appears in several files
> in the Linux kernel.  As an example, see fs/xfs/linux-2.6/kmem.c

XFS has been switched to a normal short GPL boilerplate exactly because
this wording is not okay.