From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752053AbcEPLt3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2016 07:49:29 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:35251 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750726AbcEPLt2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2016 07:49:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:49:26 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Doug Ledford Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CQ and RDMA READ/WRITE APIs Message-ID: <20160516114926.GA681@lst.de> References: <743399f9-10b7-6e62-2bf4-6a8656df8a55@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <743399f9-10b7-6e62-2bf4-6a8656df8a55@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [adding Linus and linux-kernel to Cc] On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:04:17PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > You submitted new files into the subsystem under GPL only license in > contrast to the rest of the subsystem. This presents a problem. I'm in > the position where I need to either revert them, or I need your > permission to make them dual license GPL/BSD to match the rest of the > subsystem. Were you intentionally trying to make the OFED work illegal, > or just an oversight? Hi Doug, the RDMA code was developed for a GPLed driver and moved to the code, and lots of people contributed to it under the GPL, as they assumed Linux code in genral is. Іf dual-licensing is possible at all it would require a lot of work, which I don't think is worth it. If you don't want GPL code in the core rdma.ko module we can move it to a rdma-gpl.ko module, but that would be a little bit odd.