Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] SDK: Add scripts to initialize DPDK runtime

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 07:24:02PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> 
> A tools/init directory is added with dpdk-init, a script that can be
> used to initialize a DPDK runtime environment. 2 config files with
> default options, dpdk.conf and interfaces, are provided as well
> together with a SysV init script and a systemd service unit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <lboccass@brocade.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> ---
<snip>
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..89e0399
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/init/dpdk-init.in
> @@ -0,0 +1,256 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +#
> +# dpdk-init: startup script to initialize a dpdk runtime environment
> +#
> +# Copyright 2015-2016 Canonical Ltd.
> +# Autor: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> +# Autor: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> +#
> +#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> +#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3,
> +#    as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> +#
> +#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> +#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> +#    GNU General Public License for more details.
> +#
> +#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> +#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> +#

Any particular reason this is licensed under GPL v3. AFAIK, all the
userspace code in DPDK is licensed under a BSD license (with the
exception of some dual licensed stuff which is shared between kernel and
userspace). I just worry that adding additional licenses into the mix
may confuse things.

Regards,
/Bruce