[openib-general] Licensing for user space

[Roland Dreier]

    Paul> Why not consider a more open license still, one that allows
    Paul> free commercial or non-commercial use such as the boost
    Paul> license ( http://www.boost.org/more/license_info.html ). Is
    Paul> there anything to lose by adopting an even less restrictive
    Paul> license?

First of all, I don't think it's worth the hassle of reopening the
license debate.  GPL/BSD is enshrined in the OpenIB bylaws and I think
it would be far more trouble than it's worth to change it.

Second, as far as I can tell, the only difference between the boost
license and the BSD license option is that the boost license does not
require the copyright notice to be included in binary-only
distributions of the software.  So I'm not sure there's any practical
difference anyone would care about between the boost license and our
existing 2-clause BSD option (and as the author of a lot of the code
we're discussing, I would sort of prefer that some attribution be
required even for binary-only distributions).

 - R.