From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tziporet Koren Subject: Re: ibutils license problems + a few other minor issues Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:50:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4B79B394.50407@mellanox.co.il> References: <4B743A4A.90004@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B743A4A.90004-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Yevgeny Kliteynik List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 2/11/2010 7:11 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > The ibutils tarball as found for download on the openfabrics web site > has some licensing issues that need resolved ASAP. The tarball in its > current form is probably illegal to distribute until the items are > fixed. So, here's what popped up in review (done by Jay Fenlason): > > The COPYING files sprinkled around in the tarball are not consistent. > Some of them contain a copy of the GPLv2, some of them contain a > statement that the package is licensed under either GPLv2 in the file > COPYING or the OFA BSD license included here in. Of course, it doesn't > work to reference a COPYING file from within the COPYING file you are > referencing and say it has the information you aren't including here. I > would suggest that the proper place for the statement of GPLv2 or BSD is > in possibly a LICENSE file with the COPYING file being the GPLv2 as > stated. It also seems redundant to have multiple COPYING files and > possibly also multiple LICENSE files in a single tarball, so cleanup of > unnecessary files seems in order here. > Hi Doug Thanks for providing the info (I guess it was in this way from the first days we submitted the code to OFA) Yevgeny will fix this soon Tziporet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html