Re: [openib-general] Re: [KJ] [RFC] TODO file cleanups

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:02:24AM -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >Personally, I think it's a stupid thing to try to license this code in a
> >dual way, as any port someone is going to have to do to get this code to
> >work in another os will be almost a complete rewrite in the end
> >anyway...
> 
> I think that companies want to be able to make derivative works without 
> needing to make the derivative open source, versus porting it to 
> another OS.

And then run that derivitave work on a Linux GPL kernel?  Hah, good luck
with your lawyers if you try to do that.  And good luck trying to work
around symbols that the openib code is using that are marked
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

Why do people try to do such stupid things, haven't the IB members
learned from the past...

Remind me to _never_ send in an openib kernel patch if this is the
reason why the license is what it is.

bleah.

greg k-h

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