From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0002BCD for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:22:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Sep 2016 02:22:06 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.30,266,1470726000"; d="scan'208";a="3506829" Received: from rhorton-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [163.33.230.141]) ([163.33.230.141]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Sep 2016 02:22:05 -0700 To: "Bodek, Zbigniew" , "dev@dpdk.org" References: From: Remy Horton Organization: Intel Shannon Limited Message-ID: <43149694-a5c3-1c30-5fd0-9bad7dc5bb81@intel.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:22:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] OpenSSL and non-BSD licenses in DPDK X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:22:07 -0000 Morning, On 31/08/2016 18:26, Bodek, Zbigniew wrote: [..] > I would like to ask a question regarding code licensing and importing code that > uses different license than BSD-like. Especially I'm curious about the code > that goes with OpenSSL/SSLeay license. Is it allowed to import such sources > (or derived work) to DPDK? I've seen some GPL stuff, mostly kernel modules from > Intel. So what with the above mentioned OpenSSL? It is not my call to make, but my guess is the answer will almost certainly be "No". DPDK makes it way into commercial products, and the companies concerned (well, their lawyers actually..) most likley won't like the prospect of extra licencing conditions slipping in. ..Remy