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

[Matt Leininger]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:21 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:02:24AM -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > >Personally, I think it's a stupid thing to try to license this code in a
> > >dual way, as any port someone is going to have to do to get this code to
> > >work in another os will be almost a complete rewrite in the end
> > >anyway...
> > 
> > I think that companies want to be able to make derivative works without 
> > needing to make the derivative open source, versus porting it to 
> > another OS.
> 
> And then run that derivitave work on a Linux GPL kernel?  Hah, good luck
> with your lawyers if you try to do that.  And good luck trying to work
> around symbols that the openib code is using that are marked
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
> 
> Why do people try to do such stupid things, haven't the IB members
> learned from the past...
> 
> Remind me to _never_ send in an openib kernel patch if this is the
> reason why the license is what it is.
> 
  The idea was for folks to be able to take the OpenIB code, under BSD,
and port it to OSes other than Linux.  I agree that having a BSD only
stack running on Linux would be silly and should be avoided.  In the end
I only care about Linux.  I think performance should drive what Linux
features OpenIB uses.  If it improves performance then it's worth
using.  

   - Matt