[Ofmfwg] Sunfish licensing

[Doug Ledford]

Thanks Crhristian.

In reference to specific mention of DCO, I created a pull request against
the sunfish_server_reference repository as a template that I was going to
use on all repos.  That pull request is here:
https://github.com/OpenFabrics/sunfish_server_reference/pull/2

It adds a new file DCO that is the content of the Developer Certificate of
Origin and the repo is configured to require a Signed-off-by: on all
submissions.  That should be sufficient I would think.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:30 AM CHRISTIAN PINTO <Christian.Pinto at ibm.com>
wrote:

> Hello Doug,
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> Thanks for the summary.
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> From our (IBM) side, we are good to go with a *BSD 3 Clause* license. A
> GPL based license would instead require legal approval before we contribute
> any code. Given the nature of this project, I would personally avoid having
> to go through the legal ordeal for getting the dual licensing approved and
> instead opt for a BSD 3 Clause only licence.
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> I re-confirm we are fine with the Developer Certificate of Origin as a
> mean for developers to accept the license terms. We should probably have a
> specific mention of this in our repositories.
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> Christian
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> *Christian Pinto, Ph.D.*
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> Research Scientist
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> *From: *Ofmfwg <ofmfwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org> on behalf of Doug
> Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
> *Date: *Friday, 20 October 2023 at 17:01
> *To: *ofmfwg at lists.openfabrics.org <ofmfwg at lists.openfabrics.org>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] [Ofmfwg] Sunfish licensing
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> As per our meeting today, these are the licensing terms the group
> identified as the most optimal: BSD 3 Clause The license can be found here:
> BSD 3 Clause (SPDX: BSD-3-Claus) https: //opensource.
> org/license/bsd-3-clause/ For managing contributions
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> As per our meeting today, these are the licensing terms the group
> identified as the most optimal:
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> BSD 3 Clause
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> The license can be found here:
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> BSD 3 Clause (SPDX: BSD-3-Claus)
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> https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/
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> For managing contributions to the repositories, we selected the Developer
> Certificate of Origin (aka, Signed-off-by:) as the means by which we ensure
> that all incoming contributions are licensed under the same terms as the
> rest of the repository and that we have clear copyright permissions to use
> the contributions:
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> https://developercertificate.org/
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> These are the code repositories we propose to cover under these license
> terms and what they are intended to be used for:
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> sunfish_library_reference - Intended to be a linkable library or
> consumable code such as a python module.  It is our intent that this can be
> used by any vendor without requiring that their use of this code obligates
> them to release their own internal source code to the public by virtue of
> linking with or using our code
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> sunfish_agent_reference - Intended to be a standalone RESTful API server
> suitable for embedding on a microcontroller that implements the Sunfish
> reference model.  It is our intent that this can be used by any vendor
> without requiring that their use of this code obligates them to release
> their own internal source code to the public by virtue of linking with or
> using our code
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> sunfish_server_reference - Intended to be a program runnable on a standard
> computing device that is able to scour a fabric looking for standalone
> agents and provide a unified view of what the sum total of available
> resources are and provides a single point of management for those agents
> via a RESTful API. It is our intent that this can be used by any vendor
> without requiring that their use of this code obligates them to release
> their own internal source code to the public by virtue of linking with or
> using our code
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> sunfish_manager_reference - Intended to provide a GUI management interface
> on top of the sunfish_server_reference. It is our intent that this can be
> used by any vendor without requiring that their use of this code obligates
> them to release their own internal source code to the public by virtue of
> linking with or using our code
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> Please take these terms back to your company's legal department and make
> sure that these terms are acceptable for your company to be able to
> participate in these projects.
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> Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
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