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 > > SPDX Legal Team co-lead > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Spdx-legal mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal >> <https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal> > > > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-legal mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal > <https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal> > >
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