[Ofa_boardplus] OFED release/license motion

[Dale, David]

+1

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David Dale
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On 3/7/17, 10:40 AM, "Ofa_boardplus on behalf of Gilad Shainer" <ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org on behalf of shainer at mellanox.com> wrote:

    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 
    350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100, Sunnyvale CA 94085
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ofa_boardplus [mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Coulter, Susan K
    Sent: Monday, March 06, 2017 2:55 PM
    To: ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org , <ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
    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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