Hi Christoph, On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 03:38:55PM +0000, Weiny, Ira wrote: >> > >> > Christoph, >> > >> > >> > Apologies, I misspoke in my response to you. There was a study of the code and >> > we thought it was reasonable to post. However, in retrospect we should have >> > used more due diligence. We're going back to seek explicit consent from key >> > contributors. >> >> I'm no legal expert, but don't you need consent from _all_ contributors? > > Exactly. I'd also like to see a really good argument why you'd want to > relicense code that's been part of the kernel for a while. We (Emulex/Avago) were lobbied by the Open-Fabrics Alliance (OFA) to change the licensing from just GPLv2 to a dual GPLv2/BSD license. They would prefer the elements in the OFED stack all be dual licensed. We're trying to move to this position. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html