Thanks Benjamin for you input, Can you submit the bellow files to our github repository https://github.com/linux-rdma/perftest . I will re-review it Thanks , Zohar Ben Aharon Perfromance Engineer Mellanox Technologies Ltd. Phone: +972 (74) 723 6829 Mobile: +972 (52) 691 1115 -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Drung [mailto:benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 5:20 PM To: Zohar Ben Aharon <zoharb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <NMoreyChaisemartin@xxxxxxx>; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: perftest proprietary files Hi Nicolas, can Mellanox adjust the header of the files? Currently it says: # # Copyright (C) Mellanox Technologies Ltd. 2001-2011. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. # This software product is a proprietary product of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. # (the "Company") and all right, title, and interest and to the software product, # including all associated intellectual property rights, are and shall # remain exclusively with the Company. # # This software product is governed by the End User License Agreement # provided with the software product. # $COPYRIGHT$ # $HEADER$ # but since it is gpl/bsd (as you said), the header should read something like: # Copyright (C) Mellanox Technologies Ltd. 2001-2011. All rights reserved. # # This software is available to you under a choice of one of two # licenses. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU # General Public License (GPL) Version 2, available from the file # COPYING in the main directory of this source tree, or the # OpenIB.org BSD license below: # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or # without modification, are permitted provided that the following # conditions are met: # # - Redistributions of source code must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer. # # - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials # provided with the distribution. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF # MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND # NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN # ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN # CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. Am Donnerstag, den 27.07.2017, 12:35 +0000 schrieb Zohar Ben Aharon: > Hi Nicolas, > > > I've verified your issue, > Mellanox provide perftest to be under gpl/bsd license. > since Mellanox is the maintainer and release perftest as an open > source SW it still can have copyrights on each file that was written > or approved by its developers, So the headers should remain and > declared as Mellanox propriety. > > Hope is helps you. > > Thanks, > > > Zohar Ben Aharon > Perfromance Engineer > Mellanox Technologies Ltd. > Phone: +972 (74) 723 6829 > Mobile: +972 (52) 691 1115 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zohar Ben Aharon > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 8:41 AM > To: 'Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin' <NMoreyChaisemartin@xxxxxxx>; linux- > rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: perftest proprietary files > > Sorry for the late response, > ill verify this files propriety and back to you. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin [mailto:NMoreyChaisemartin@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 11:29 AM > To: linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Zohar Ben Aharon <zoharb@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: perftest proprietary files > > Hi, > > While packaging perftest for SUSE, I discovered that some files have > headers declaring the software as Mellanox proprietary while the > COPYING declares LGPL/BSD. > > The files are: > * Makefile.am > * Makefile.in > * configure.ac > > Should these headers be dropped ? > > (I pinged zoharb about this already without much luck. Figured it > might be worth a shot here) > -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer ProfitBricks GmbH Greifswalder Str. 207 D - 10405 Berlin Email: benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.profitbricks.com&data=02%7C01%7Czoharb%40mellanox.com%7Cafc99a20b2d946bc35bf08d4d4fa8ec3%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636367619985128707&sdata=FRyYg0paOv4ktJzBd%2FkRzTZjvhVtv89J5tCGi%2FGpGpM%3D&reserved=0 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506B. Geschäftsführer: Achim Weiss. ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���fk��ܨ}���Ơz�j:+v�����w����ޙ��&�)ߡ�a����z�ޗ���ݢj��w�f
