From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Linux support for RDMA (was: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:02:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20050402060216.GA17766@kroah.com> References: <20050401154348.553f3c46@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <1112405833.424df749e61b5@imap.linux.ibm.com> <20050402052738.GA17506@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Roland Dreier , Benjamin LaHaise , Dmitry Yusupov , open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, "David S. Miller" , mpm@selenic.com, andrea@suse.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, ksummit-2005-discuss@thunk.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, bmt@zurich.ibm.com Return-path: To: jaganav@us.ibm.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050402052738.GA17506@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:27:38PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:37:13PM -0500, jaganav@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > > Several RNIC adapter vendors, who contribute to the > > openRDMA effort, are quite willing to opensource > > their drivers through openRDMA project. > > "Several"? Why not all? > > And why the dual license? What good is writing Linux kernel code that > is BSD licensed for such a core component? Didn't you all learn from > the openib licensing mess? Oh, and for those of you who might not know what mess I am talking about: The openib code was set up to be dual GPL and BSD licensed for the express purpose of taking the openib code and placing it into a closed source operating system (not any of the *BSDs). Needless to say, this has prevented me from doing any openib work, and probably the same for a number of other Linux kernel developers. If you all wish to duplicate this stupidity, feel free, but do not expect to get any help from the community... thanks, greg k-h