From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CA1A0032; Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FEB4021D; Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07EC40156; Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:38:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23ED5C00C2; Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:38:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:38:33 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:date:from:from :in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :reply-to:sender:subject:subject:to:to; s=fm2; t=1663151913; x= 1663238313; bh=gimlnd8ft+rtUTzYGRPU+AU1BI4GJn5oYTCwJGvUS3w=; b=p Wop5qoij3aL4jITZ4CDMfHArkd4GUugaczRiA8G0yz8Fv4kzmHEGJUu14MnrlXHj gd485gGT/hCuaHSjfXzazEgtvQo3G3Hf+I2MSd9c3rCsJ+Jdwc7zYpi6PtK27L37 kT7PxdWTG/wHyyIS2Uu+nQfnkHFmCB6NwBPnrSLVIMOi9bHiKp3XK5O5HWrJ6Fv+ LaAprGOmnLoYvtvplms0Gp8G8liy0JvWrppUE6j04yNgoypaOZj8SCwiVIpwV2jD paQXIquEuxKUnd6nt+28MuMmH58me6zToHSjtDMNku6kOMItOGz8HJOeZCbSP2gl cgYAM23ZXMFV3couYFnpA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:date:date:feedback-id:feedback-id:from:from :in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :reply-to:sender:subject:subject:to:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; t=1663151913; x= 1663238313; bh=gimlnd8ft+rtUTzYGRPU+AU1BI4GJn5oYTCwJGvUS3w=; b=O QpYr+jJYpRtPa9VOzzg2iFYy1UB+PciIOaEwWD+TULPU/kE0YFzkkjE/lncYelE0 qAo+n5Muy6mKiqirBTeiVH3caP395wpk7NLzx39E2KJfwSLvaBX5SBHX5EQ3vidF la6KEucTLN4OxuIzn/WVnD3oETOR3tht1pUYa8aEEzotaaWrraguWLA9HYKPOIBd tswJpkc7jJMIEtBtHEd7RVIkpBCgA6R1Kqx+j46e/LsQhPPk0NifAqo7yvppBRsv U7nbLf7ksmOKkzSpbq5ScHOMJVVtZXzuJqBid1y3588TsZOjNFV6+kRwGF/u7eJ2 0zxwjIQsiZcXJXrNzcVYg== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvfedrfeduiedgfeduucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmne cujfgurhephffvvefufffkjghfggfgtgesthfuredttddtvdenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhm rghsucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenuc ggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeelgfefieefgefhgedtffegteeugeevheevhfduheduffelgfdu udefheeuuedvfeenucffohhmrghinhepghhithhhuhgsrdgtohhmnecuvehluhhsthgvrh fuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomhepthhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgr lhhonhdrnhgvth X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: i47234305:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:38:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Ferruh Yigit , "techboard@dpdk.org" , "Guo, Junfeng" , Stephen Hemminger Cc: "Zhang, Qi Z" , "Wu, Jingjing" , Hemant Agrawal , "dev@dpdk.org" , "Li, Xiaoyun" , "awogbemila@google.com" , "Richardson, Bruce" , "Wang, Haiyue" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] net/gve: introduce GVE PMD base code Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:38:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4401137.8F6SAcFxjW@thomas> In-Reply-To: References: <20220729193042.2764633-2-xiaoyun.li@intel.com> <3242426.0oRPG1VZx4@thomas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org 06/09/2022 11:31, Guo, Junfeng: > From: Thomas Monjalon > > 01/09/2022 20:23, Stephen Hemminger: > > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 18:19:22 +0100 > > > Ferruh Yigit 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.