[Ofa_boardplus] OFED license statement

[Atchley, Scott]

The amended language does not include Linux and it sounds like it still changes the license on the existing dual-licensed code (e.g. ULPs and device drivers).


> On Mar 6, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Coulter, Susan K <skc at lanl.gov> wrote:
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> LANL accepts the amendments and the motion now reads:
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> The OFA accepts the nature of the kernel space code as GPLv2 and user space code as dual-licensed (GPLv2 and BSD) and approves the release of OFED 3.18-3 and future OFED releases with the following text included in a README.license file.
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>> "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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