Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/3] ring: introduce new header file to include common functions

[Jia He <hejianet@gmail.com>]

Hi hermant


On 1/22/2018 1:15 PM, Hemant Agrawal Wrote:
> Hi Jia,
>
> On 1/22/2018 7:23 AM, Jia He wrote:
>>>>> This is BSD-2-freebsd, which is not a approved license for DPDK.
>>>>> Can you ask Kip Macy, if he/she is ok to re-license it with BSD-3?
>>>>>
>>>>> Please check with legal, if you can just keep the copyright of Kip
>>>>> Macy and re license it with BSD-3.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see the BSD-3 license to be permissive enough to be re-licensed as
>>>>> BSD-3.
>>>>> But I am not a lawyer.
>>>>>
>>>> I agree this is something we should do, as a maintainer of
>>>> librte_ring, I can
>>>> do it.
>>>>
>>>> But here, Jia is just moving code in a new file. I don't think this
>>>> should block
>>>> his patchset from beeing included.
>>>   [Hemant]   I thought of blocking this kind of moves, so that we get
>>> the license complaint of DPDK faster 😊
>>>
>>> Jia, shall keep the original copyrights and headers in this file (i.e.
>>> No SPDX).   You need to fix it along with rte_ring.h in near future.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Hemant
>>>
>> Ok, I will
>> Besides ,I got the allowance from Kip Macy just now. He/She allowed dpdk
>> to license librte_ring.h as BSD-3.
>>
>> My question:
>>> Would you mind allowing dpdk librte_ring.h to be licensed as BSD 3
>> instead of BSD 2?
>> His/her reply:
>>
>> "I think that's fine. If you're using it be careful I think there's a
>> fix to memory barrier usage needed more relaxed memory models such as
>> ARM. I'll check reviews to see if it made it in or not."
>>
>
> That is good. Your Patch v9 looks ok.
>
> Will you please also add another patch for following:
> (all files in librte_ring - having BSD-2 license)
>
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>  *
>  * Copyright ..... (Intel or your company)
>  * Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Kip Macy kmacy@freebsd.org
>  * All rights reserved.
>  * Derived from FreeBSD's bufring.h
>  * Used as BSD-3 Licensed with permission from Kip Macy.
>  */
>
>
With pleasure, thanks

-- 
Cheers,
Jia