ok, great, that’s what we merged already. done :)


> On Mar 22, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Dennis Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think Linux-OpenIB is a perfect short identifier for this license. 
> 
> Regards,
> Dennis
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:15 AM, J Lovejoy <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> oh crikey, naming is so hard!
> 
> the rationale for using “Linux-OpenIB” was to differentiate from the reality 
> that OpenIB.org <http://openib.org/> uses the real and full matching 
> BSD-2-Clause - so some kind of such differentiation is good.
> 
> Happy to add references to other examples in the Notes tag.
> 
> I’m torn as well - the Linux-specific reference feels less strong with that 
> many reference elsewhere. Using “openfabrics” is the same issue, different 
> tune. but I don’t know what else to come up with…
> 
> OpenIB-BSD-MIT  
> 
> Other thoughts?
> 
> Jilayne
> 
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> 
>> On Mar 22, 2018, at 12:06 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Kate:
>> 
>> Thank you for this excellent background and research!
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Kate Stewart
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception
>>> 
>>> Linux Kernel Variant of OpenIB.org <http://openib.org/> license
>>> 
>>> Provide a proposed Short Identifier.
>>> 
>>> Linux-OpenIB
>>> 
>>> Provide a functioning url reference to the license or exception text, either
>>> from the author or a community recognized source.
>>> 
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/infiniband/core/sa.h
>>>  
>>> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/infiniband/core/sa.h>
>> 
>> 
>> FWIW, here is some extra information on usage of this license in these
>> user-space packages beyond the kernel:
>> 
>> - 470 occurences in libfabric https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric 
>> <https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric>
>> 
>> - 246 occurences in rdma-core https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/ 
>> <https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/>
>> 
>> These may be better references than the kernel.
>> 
>> Based on that, there could be an argument to have a different name /
>> id than Linux-OpenIB as this is not entirely Linux-specific.
>> The license is called BSD (MIT) at libfabric which is likely not a happy 
>> name.
>> May be something like openfabrics-bsd may be a better name?
>> NB: I feel very weakly about which name to pick, so feel free to
>> ignore this entirely.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cordially
>> Philippe Ombredanne
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