On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:11:23 -0700 Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.ka...@intel.com> wrote:
> On 9/10/2019 2:19 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:53:58 -0700 > > Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.ka...@intel.com> wrote: > > > >> --- /dev/null > >> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/getopt.h > >> @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ > >> +/* musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license: > >> + * > >> + * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> + * Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Rich Felker, et al. > >> + * > >> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining > >> + * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the > >> + * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including > >> + * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, > >> + * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to > >> + * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to > >> + * the following conditions: > >> + * > >> + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > >> + * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > >> + * > > Although MIT license is similar to BSD license, it is not the same. > > The DPDK project has converged to only use BSD-3 for all DPDK code (and GPL > > for kernel code). > > > > Please find an alternative that is BSD licensed. > > We discussed in the Windows Community call regarding the challenges we > are facing to find and include > > BSD-3 implementation of getopt and dirent files. > > Please let us know if there can be any exceptions to include MIT license > code for Windows > > as mentionedin dpdk.org charter under 6.3 section. > > Thomas, can you please comment on this? > To get exception needs at least TAB and probably even governing board approval.
