[openib-general] 2005 OpenIB Developers Workshop presentations

[Matt Leininger]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 09:49 -0500, James Lentini wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Matt Leininger wrote:
> 
> >  Several developers have volunteered to work on uDAPL.  The DAT
> > collaborative is working to get a GPL/BSD version of uDAPL to OpenIB.
> > James and Arkady from NetApp gave a DAT talk.  They mentioned needing 1
> > month to get the GPL code, and another month or two to fork the code
> > base.  I'm not sure why 2-3 months is needed to do this.  Perhaps James
> > and/or Arkady can comment.
> 
> My 2-3 month estimate was based on 1 month for the DAT Collaborative 
> to discuss and vote on licensing the code under the GPL and 1-2 months 
> to port and test on OpenIB Gen 2.

   ok that sounds better.  We could follow Woody's suggestion of
starting uDAPL development on OpenIB with the BSD code and then dual
license it GPL/BSD after the DAT Collaborative gets the licensing issues
figure out.  
> 
> > I think we need to see the GPL/BSD uDAPL code for OpenIB in the next 
> > couple of weeks.  Better to put the code in the open so everyone can 
> > see what changes are required.  Same goes for kDAPL.  Was the 
> > u/kDAPL implementation for OpenIB going to live at openib.org or 
> > stay under cvs at the sourceforge dapl project?
> 
> We are proposing to maintain the code in both locations. The OpenIB 
> specific implementation would be on openib.org while a 
> platform/transport independent implementation would continue on 
> our SourceForge site.
> 
   That's reasonable.  

   Thanks,

	- Matt