[Ofa_boardplus] OFED license statement

[Paul Grun]

Whoa Nelly!  Before we get too far down the pipe here, and before we start seconding and voting, could someone please elaborate the rules under which we propose to hold this email vote?

I'm not against the idea of an email vote at all, but we have pretty rigorous procedures for voting during con calls...what are the equivalent procedures here?

- Is there an opportunity for discussion following the second?
- at what point is the vote opened, and when does it close?
- who is entitled to vote, and what are the quorum requirements?
- is this going to become standard operating procedure, or is this a one time thing because we're under the gun with the OFED release?

Again, I'm not adverse to an email vote, but it would behoove us to be sure we don't establish precedent that we really wish we hadn't.  Trust me on this...

-Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ofa_boardplus [mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On
>Behalf Of Andy Riebs
>Sent: Monday, March 06, 2017 12:24 PM
>To: ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org
>Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFED license statement
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>HPE votes to accept this wording.
>
>On 03/06/2017 02:56 PM, Atchley, Scott wrote:
>> Second (the motion, not the crap).
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 2:43 PM, Coulter, Susan K <skc at lanl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Crap.
>>>
>>> As of 12:43 Mountain Time on March 6, the motion reads:
>>>
>>>>> The OFA accepts the nature of Linux kernel space code as GPLv2 and user
>space as dual-licensed (GPLv2 and BSD) and approves the release of OFED 3.18-3
>with the following text included in a README.license file.
>>>>>
>>>>> "OFED is distributed as a source tarball and includes both user space and
>Linux kernel space code.  The Linux kernel space code contains some dual-
>licensed files and some GPLv2-only files, resulting in a kernel space product that is
>licensed GPLv2.  All user space code, however, is dual licensed (GPLv2 and BSD)."
>>>>>
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