> > Does this mean that the code you want to add to libibverbs will be tainted > with GPL > > since they come from the Linux kernel. > > I guess so. > > > I know that there are a lot of people that will not use a GPL library, since > it could > > taint their applications with GPL if they > > link to that library. I thought that is why LGPL was invented to prevent such > tainting. > > I could utilize the code from FreeBSD. Does that allow me to submit this to > libibverbs under the dual GPL/BSD license? > I think I can just re-implement these services myself based published works describing the memory barrier assembly for ARM (like the document Jason referenced earlier). That will avoid any tainting. Doug: Will that work? -- 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
