[Ofa_boardplus] OFED release/license motion

[Gilad Shainer]

Mellanox votes yes under the condition that this motion is only for the release of OFED 3.18-3, and not for any future releases. 

There was a good reason behind the bylaws requirement a dual license, and we should not easily vote against directions set without proper understanding of the outcome. I am aware of multiple issues that GPL only code create for multiple users of OFA. 


Regards, 
Gilad Shainer
Vice President, Marketing 
Mellanox Technologies 
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Subject: [Ofa_boardplus] OFED release/license motion


Motion on the floor:


> 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 the LICENSE.text file in OFED project root.
> 
> "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).”


> ORNL seconded

> Votes recorded as of 15:30 March 6, 2017:



Broadcom / Eddie Wai

Cray/Paul Grun

HPE / Andy Riebs - YES

Huawei / Daqi Ren

IBM / Bernard Metzler

Intel /  Jim Pappas

Jump Trading / Christoph Lameter - YES

LANL / Susan Coulter - YES

LLNL / Matt Leininger

Mellanox / Gilad Shainer

NetApp / David Dale

Oak Ridge / Scott Atchley - YES

Oracle / David Brean

Sandia / Chris Beggio - YES

Unisys / Lilia Weber

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