[ofiwg] including NetworkDirect headers in libfabric project

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:03:03PM +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Hefty, Sean <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Not that I'm aware of.  I've found the headers in other github projects, but that doesn't mean much.
> 
> I'm sure someone here in OFA can find the Right Someone to talk to in Microsoft for us.
> 
> I think the questions / discussion will be pretty easy (IANAL and all that), but we might as well try to do the Right Thing before doing something that could unintentionally have some repercussions.
> 
> - Is it ok if we commit these files to our repo (such that they will be publicly available to the world)?
> - Are we allowed to edit those headers?
> - What license are those headers distributed under?

If you can't answer this question then you can't include the files in
your source tree. No distro paying attention will redistribute
something like that.

These came from one of MS's SDK releases right? The license should be
in the click-through when you install or download the SDK..

Jason