On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:33:03PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > I am not a lawyer, but this has been explained to me on numerous > > occasions, so I relay the layman's interpretation here: > > > > No, you don't always need everyone's approval. There are contributions > > that are not legally copyright worthy. > > There are. But for an open source project trying to deal with slippery > slot is not worth it. Just get an ACK from everyone to be on the safe > side and show that you act in good faith.
Note that there are numerous contributions in the IB subsystem from folks not in the OFA. Those certainly have the expectation that their work was under the GPLv2 and not BSD. -- 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
