On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 07:02, Patrick McHardy wrote: > This patch is a port of HFSC from altq to Linux 2.6. HFSC is a > hierarchical packet scheduler which allows flexible resource > allocation by decoupling of bandwidth and delay. The original > version and a paper describing HFSC can be found here: > http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html . [..] I think it is a good idea to have this in the kernel. Glad someone eventually got to it. > The last issue is the License: The altq version is released under a > BSD-style License without advertising clause (the original authors > kindly agreed to remove it). It is my understanding that this is > compatible with the GPL, and because the code includes some minor > amounts of GPL'ed code the correct License is GPL and not > Dual BSD/GPL. I would be glad if someone can confirm that this is > correct. > This is probably the most contentious issue (given say current SCO stoopidty). Have you talked to the original author on this? I think granting you written consent to move to GPL may be sufficient. cheers, jamal PS:- i will look at the code and give you some feedback. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
