From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [next PATCH 0/5] net: tcp: DCTCP congestion control algorithm - IPR Patent Issue Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:35:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140513.123515.1864213307391048280.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140513091019.7b1efbef@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hagen@jauu.net, lars@netapp.com, cwang@twopensource.com, fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: stephen@networkplumber.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:43361 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbaEMQfR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2014 12:35:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140513091019.7b1efbef@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:10:19 -0700 > IANAL but my understanding is that FRAND and GPL are not by nature directly > compatible. It is possible for do it but only if the entity claiming IPR > gives a free license to all GPL users. This is the case of the recent Cisco > PIE implementation for example. I am not even looking at this patch until this issue is resolved. Please resubmit these changes at that point in time.