From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>,
Leonid Bloch <lbloch@nvidia.com>,
Itay Avraham <itayavr@nvidia.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:40:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231127144017.GK436702@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2023112702-postal-rumbling-003f@gregkh>
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 01:36:54PM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Why is this dual licensed? Again, you are using a GPL-only api for this
> driver, how would that even be possible to make this code be BSD?
The code to FreeBSD with mlx5 related dual licensed code integrated is
freely available to inspect. I've never looked myself but I'm told
FreeBSD changes the reference Linux code to remove the use of GPL
code, and that FreeBSD has created BSD licensed versions of some
kernel APIs to support that.
> I thought we already discussed this, AND I talked to someone who
> discussed this with a nvidia lawyer already and I thought this was going
> to get changed. What happened to that?
It is in the cover letter. You asked for an approval and statement
from our legal and we obtained it. Our lawyers did a review, discussed
with a LF contact, and continue to instruct to use the dual
license. We've done what you required us to do.
The summary I have of the call you refer to does not include a
discussion or agreement about change in nvidia policy regarding mlx5
code.
Like Dave said, our lawyers are not your lawyers. Now that we have
involved legal, and they have given an instruction, we must follow it.
Regards,
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-27 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-21 7:06 [PATCH V3 0/5] mlx5 ConnectX control misc driver Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 7:06 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] mlx5: Add aux dev for ctl interface Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 7:06 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-27 13:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 14:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-11-27 15:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 16:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-27 18:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 19:26 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28 0:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 4:46 ` David Ahern
2023-11-28 14:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 16:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-28 16:44 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 17:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-28 18:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-28 19:55 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28 20:10 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-29 9:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-12-04 21:37 ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-05 2:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-05 17:11 ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-06 4:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-07 15:54 ` David Ahern
2023-12-07 16:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-07 16:41 ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-07 17:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-12-07 18:06 ` Aron Silverton
2023-12-07 19:02 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-12-08 5:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-12-08 13:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-12-08 5:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-12-08 12:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-12-07 18:54 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-12-13 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-28 19:31 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28 16:52 ` David Ahern
2023-11-27 18:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29 9:08 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-29 9:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29 13:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-29 15:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29 18:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-11-21 7:06 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add info ioctl Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-27 19:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-27 20:39 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-28 9:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-29 8:53 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 7:06 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add command rpc ioctl Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 7:06 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add umem reg/unreg ioctl Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 20:44 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 21:04 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 22:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 22:52 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 22:18 ` David Ahern
2023-11-21 22:46 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-11-21 23:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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