From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] sched: patches for 2.2 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:33:02 -0800 Message-ID: <20160308083302.5709d431@xeon-e3> References: <1448822809-8350-1-git-send-email-stephen@networkplumber.org> <5760276.6KREI08Oct@xps13> <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D8912647968B0C@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f173.google.com (mail-pf0-f173.google.com [209.85.192.173]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB88511D9 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:32:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pf0-f173.google.com with SMTP id x188so16336368pfb.2 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:32:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <3EB4FA525960D640B5BDFFD6A3D8912647968B0C@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:49:20 +0000 "Dumitrescu, Cristian" wrote: > Regarding Stephen's patches, I think there is a pending issue regarding the legal side of the Copyright, which is attributed to Intel, although Stephen's code is relicensed with BSD license by permission from the original code author (which also submitted the code to Linux kernel under GPL). This was already flagged. This is a legal issue and I do not feel comfortable with ack-ing this patch until the legal resolution on this is crystal clear. I got explicit permission from the author who holds the copyright to relicense it.