On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 05:34:56PM -0700, Saurabh Shah wrote: > This is the "Hyper-V Extensible Switch extension filter driver" sample code > available at: > http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Hyper-V-Extensible-Virtual-e4b31fbb > > The sample code is licensed under Microsoft Limited Public License version > 1.1. The license is available here - > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx (Exhibit B). > > Our core Hyper-V switch extension builds on top of this sample code to develop > the forwarding engine. > > Signed-off-by: Eitan Eliahu <elia...@vmware.com> > Signed-off-by: Guolin Yang <gy...@vmware.com> > Signed-off-by: Linda Sun <l...@vmware.com> > Signed-off-by: Nithin Raju <nit...@vmware.com> > Signed-off-by: Saurabh Shah <ssaur...@vmware.com>
The authorship on this patch is a bit murky. It appears that everything added in the patch was written by Microsoft (did VMware modify it?), so why is it signed off by five VMware people? One, I could understand, since someone has to compose the patch; whoever did that should be the author of the patch. Unless Eitan or Nithin wrote up the patch, it's not time to add them to AUTHORS. The license, not just a URL to it, should be included in the source tree. I think that that is always a good idea, but 3(d) in the license says so explicitly. I don't think that the URL you provide for the license is correct. When I go to the URL for the code, then click on the MS-LPL link there, I get slightly different text (e.g. the wording of 3(f) is different there). I question whether we can include this in the source tree at all. License 3(f) only allows distributing code "that run[s] directly on a Microsoft Windows operating system product, ..." Source code doesn't "run directly" on anything at all, so this might forbid distributing source. I think we'd need to get a lawyer's opinion. Have you asked a lawyer about that? 3(f) definitely violates DFSG #6 (see https://www.debian.org/social_contract), so if this code goes in then it'll have to be removed during packaging for Debian upload. (I don't know whether Fedora etc. have a similar policy.) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
