[Ofa_boardplus] OFED license statement

[Christoph Lameter]

They have inadvertently published OFED that way for a long time as far as I
can tell. Clarification is clearly needed ASAP. A vote will not change
anything.

On Mar 6, 2017 10:59 AM, "Dale, David" <David.Dale at netapp.com> wrote:

> Hi Susan,
>
> I disagree.  NetApp believes this needs a formal Board vote.   The Bylaws
> are quite clear that OFED releases should be dual license – the EWG cannot
> publish a release that includes non dual-licensed code without a Board vote.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Dale
> Director Industry Standards
> CTO Office, NetApp
> 1-617-417-7861
> ddale at netapp.com
>
>
> On 3/3/17, 7:33 PM, "Ofa_boardplus on behalf of Coulter, Susan K" <
> ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org on behalf of skc at lanl.gov>
> wrote:
>
>
>     Folks,
>     The EWG would really like to move forward with their OFED release.
>     To that end, we need approval from the Board that they can do so -
> with the statement below included in a license or readme file.
>     Please indicate the following:
>
>     - We need a formal vote to approve this
>
>     - We do NOT need a formal vote to approve this
>
>     If there is support for needing a formal vote, I am going to propose
> we vote via email - if possible.
>     The OFED release has been waiting for the board to approve their
> release and provide language about the licensing.
>     This has gone on long enough, and we have plenty of other issues that
> will take our time at the next couple conference calls.
>
>     My position is that we do NOT need to formally approve this.
>
>     Thanx.
>
>     STATEMENT TO BE INCLUDED IN OFED:
>
>     OFED is distributed as a source tarball and includes both kernel space
> and user space code.  The kernel space code includes a number of files that
> are licensed under GPLv2 only.  Therefore, the kernel space code included
> as part of the OFED tarball is licensed as GPLv2.  The user space code,
> however, is dual licensed (GPLv2 and BSD).
>
>
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>     Network Capability Lead
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