[openib-general] Re: [KJ] [RFC] TODO file cleanups

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:06:19AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Michael> By the way, I was looking at using RCU to reduce locking,
>     Michael> also for thing like poll_cq. What do you say to that?
> 
> Unless it's a dramatic speedup, we should avoid RCU because it seems
> RCU can only be used with GPL code, not dual GPL/BSD.

"dual GPL/BSD" means you can choose whether you want to use the code 
under the GPL or under a BSD licence.

Therefore, it's simply GPL code.

And even in the other case, the 3-clause BSD licence is compatible with 
the GPL.

>  - Roland

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Adrian

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