> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 2, 2022 04:50
> To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@xilinx.com>; techbo...@dpdk.org
> Cc: Guo, Junfeng <junfeng....@intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z
> <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing...@intel.com>; Hemant
> Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Li, Xiaoyun
> <xiaoyun...@intel.com>; awogbem...@google.com; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.w...@intel.com>;
> techbo...@dpdk.org; Stephen Hemminger
> <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] net/gve: introduce GVE PMD base code
>
> 01/09/2022 20:23, Stephen Hemminger:
> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 18:19:22 +0100
> > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/gve/gve_adminq.c
> b/drivers/net/gve/gve_adminq.c
> > > > new file mode 100644
> > > > index 0000000000..8a724f12c6
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/drivers/net/gve/gve_adminq.c
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,925 @@
> > > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> > > > + * Google Virtual Ethernet (gve) driver
> > > > + * Version: 1.3.0
> > > > + * Copyright (C) 2015-2022 Google, Inc.
> > > > + * Copyright(C) 2022 Intel Corporation
> > > > + */
> > > > +
> > >
> > > Can you please get approval for the MIT license from techboard, as
> > > Stephen highlighted in previous version?
> >
> >
> > I would prefer that it be BSD or dual licensed.
> > Although MIT and BSD-3 licenses are compatible, this is not something
> techboard can decide
> > it requires a statement from a knowledgeable open source lawyer (Intel
> or LF).
> >
> > Please fix the license to BSD and save lots of trouble.
>
> +1 to change to BSD to avoid trouble.
Thanks for your concern and comments!
Yes, we are also willing to have these base code under BSD license.
Note that these code are not Intel files and they come from the kernel
community.
Everyone can reach the code at:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-virtual-ethernet-linux/tree/v1.3.0.
The base code here has the statement of SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR
MIT).
Thus, we may not be in the good position to re-license these code,
and we didn't find the BSD-licensed version at any open community,
so we just follow the required MIT license as an exception to DPDK.
Regards,
Junfeng
>
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