FW: [openib-general] Minutes from DAPL BOF at OpenIB Workshop

[Kanevsky, Arkady]

woody,
If Open IB wants to go with LGPL license it is fine with us.
We will need to take a voit on DAT Collaborative onit also.
But from what I see on reflector LGPL license is outside the current
bylaws of
Open IB and there is a discussion on it going on.

SO until this issue is resolved on Open IB we will add GPL license to
uDAPL (and kDAPL)
and will work on getting it ready for submission to Open IB.
Once the license the GPL license is approved by DAT we can move the dev
work on Open IB SF.
If Arlin is available he can start the work now.
Lets first identify what areas require changes. 

Arkady

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Woodruff, Robert J [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com] 
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 7:48 PM
> To: Kanevsky, Arkady
> Cc: openib-general at openib.org; Davis, Arlin R; Matt Leininger
> Subject: RE: FW: [openib-general] Minutes from DAPL BOF at 
> OpenIB Workshop
> 
> 
>  
> Hi Arkady,
> 
> As I mentioned in the BOF, I have a person (Arlin Davis) that 
> can help with developing a uDAPL provider for the openib.org verbs. 
> After discussing it more
> with folks here, is seems to us that perhaps for the uDAPL 
> user-mode library,  it be provided to openib.org under a dual 
> BSD + LGPL library rather than a BSD + GPL since people 
> normally want to use LGPL for 
> libraries. 
> 
> Also, I think that we can go ahead and start porting using the BSD 
> license available from sourceforge today. Once the port is 
> complete, we can submit it to openib.org under the dual 
> license and submit 
> any changes back to the main sourceforge project under the 
> BSD license, or you can simply accept the changes under the 
> BSD license, thus for uDAPL there is no need to wait for the 
> expanded licensing terms of the sourceforge project.
> 
> Once the user-mode verbs, user-mode CM, SA support is 
> available from openib.org, 
> we can get started. If this is OK with folks, I'll have Arlin 
> start to take a look at this.
> 
> Sound OK ?
> 
> woody
>