> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:52 AM, Devesh Sharma <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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.
Please resubmit your patch. Include nothing but the copyright change, and in the commit message clearly document the change you are making, and include all of the people that you contacted in the Cc: list in the changelog. This will provide the necessary legal documentation for the change. > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Doug Ledford <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD >> >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html — Doug Ledford <[email protected]> GPG Key ID: 0E572FDD
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