The ibutils tarball as found for download on the openfabrics web site has some licensing issues that need resolved ASAP. The tarball in its current form is probably illegal to distribute until the items are fixed. So, here's what popped up in review (done by Jay Fenlason):
The COPYING files sprinkled around in the tarball are not consistent.
Some of them contain a copy of the GPLv2, some of them contain a
statement that the package is licensed under either GPLv2 in the file
COPYING or the OFA BSD license included here in. Of course, it doesn't
work to reference a COPYING file from within the COPYING file you are
referencing and say it has the information you aren't including here. I
would suggest that the proper place for the statement of GPLv2 or BSD is
in possibly a LICENSE file with the COPYING file being the GPLv2 as
stated. It also seems redundant to have multiple COPYING files and
possibly also multiple LICENSE files in a single tarball, so cleanup of
unnecessary files seems in order here.
There are a number of files who have headers that indicate they are
*not* under either GPLv2 or BSD.
ibdm/replace/regex.[ch] are LGPLv2+, so need a LGPLv2+ COPYING somewhere
ibdm/replace/{memset.c,realloc.c,malloc.c} are GPLv2+ versus GPLv2
ibdm/src/fabric_sim.cpp claims to be confidential and proprietary! It
refers to LICENSE.txt for t&c. There is no LICENSE.txt under ibdm/.
There is one under ibmtsim/utils/ though.
ibmgtsim/config/{missing,config.sub,ltmain.sh,depcomp,config.guess} is
GPLv2+
ibmgtsim/config/install-sh is X license
ibmgtsim/utils/{,un}install.sh is GPLv2+
There are also a few other minor issues with the tarball as it builds:
/usr/bin/ibnlparse has no man page
/usr/share/man/man1/ibdm-ibnl-file.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ibdm-topo-file.1.gz
Are in man1, but have no corresponding executables. Perhaps
they should be in a different man section?
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