Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Request for Comments on SoftiWarp

Jason Gunthorpe
2018-02-04T20:39:51Z

On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 08:08:31PM +0000, Bernard Metzler wrote:

> >Can you use the standard OFA license please? IBM is an OFA member and
> >is behloden to the membership agreement requring the common dual
> >license.
> >
>
> sorry to see that. What's exactly wrong with the current (dual) license
> statement from IBM? I checked several other user libs. All come with
> some flavor of a dual BSD/GPLv2 license statement as this one,
> as far as I can see.

The common BSD license does not have the advertising clause. It is not
'some flavour', the open fabrics agreement specifies their specific
flavor of BSD license see COPYING.BSD_MIT

Jason