On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:44:41 -0500 Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
> The following files have LGPL or GPL licenses. I can see the libretto_eal > and the four files that are part of DTS being GPL, but there others seem like > a mistake. > Especially the docs, and the presence of the LICENSE.LGPL file. > > Is it possible to clean these up and make them BSD licensed? > > Jim No. KNI, Xen, and IGB UIO must be GPL licensed since they are kernel drivers. The other stuff header files should be dual licensed. > # QEMU Guest Agent Client > ./dts/dep/QMP/qemu-ga-client > ./dts/dep/QMP/qmp.py > > Came from Scapy > ./dts/dep/lldp.py > > Texttable Framework (LGPL) > ./dts/framework/texttable.py > > These are part of DPDK proper: > ./dpdk/LICENSE.LGPL > ./dpdk/app/test/test_mempool.c > ./dpdk/doc/guides/freebsd_gsg/build_dpdk.rst > ./dpdk/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_dpdk.rst > ./dpdk/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst > ./dpdk/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/img/l2_fwd_virtenv_benchmark_setup.png > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_dom0_common.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_feature_defs.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_features.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_pci_dev_ids.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_dom0_common.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/include/exec-env/rte_kni_common.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/COPYING > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/kcompat_ethtool.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/COPYING > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_dev.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_ethtool.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_fifo.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_misc.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_net.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/kni_vhost.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/xen_dom0/dom0_mm_dev.h > ./dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/xen_dom0/dom0_mm_misc.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.c > ./dpdk/lib/librte_vhost/eventfd_link/eventfd_link.h > ./dpdk/pkg/dpdk.spec >