We have received appropriate permissions from the code authors and would like to resubmit the patches to change to a dual-licensed driver. Thank-you. On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/08/2015 04:25 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:15:00PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >>> On 07/08/2015 04:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>>> So how about someone tells OFED to stop trying to enforce this BS? >>> >>> Unfortunately, simply "not enforcing" a bylaw of a multi-company >>> organization isn't really a valid option, you should know that. You >>> have to work to change the bylaw, which usually involves its own >>> draconian process. >> >> Looks like it's time to get that started. > > If they care to, then I'm sure they can. Unlike you, they might > consider the dual license a benefit. > >> Or just tell OFED to piss off >> because they really shouldn't be able to have that sort of influence >> over code in the Linux kernel. > > OFED is a distribution made by the EWG that is a working group of the > OFA. You can't tell OFED to piss off, it's an inanimate object. You > *could* tell the EWG or OFA to do so. However, they don't really have > influence over the linux kernel except that their members contribute > more code to the RDMA stack than all other contributors combined by > orders of magnitude. If an individual code contributor (read Avagotech) > decides that they wish to comply with the EWG bylaws and make their own > code compliant (read ocrdma driver), I have no problem with that. If > this weren't their code, or if they weren't actively maintaining it and > the primary contributors to its ongoing changes, it would be a different > issue. But that's not the case, So I'm not inclined to take the stance > you are. And since I know they are currently pursuing due diligence on > getting permission to do so, I'm inclined to block further patches from > non-Avagotech addresses until either the change is complete or abandoned. > > -- > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> > GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD > > -- 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
