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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@xilinx.com>,
 "techboard@dpdk.org" <techboard@dpdk.org>, "Guo,
 Junfeng" <junfeng.guo@intel.com>,
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 Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, "Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] net/gve: introduce GVE PMD base code
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:38:31 +0200
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06/09/2022 11:31, Guo, Junfeng:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 01/09/2022 20:23, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 18:19:22 +0100
> > > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@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.

I understand we are in trouble here.
We need the techboard to decide what to do.
If we want to go in the MIT direction, we need to ask the govboard.