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On 9/10/2019 2:19 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon,  9 Sep 2019 12:53:58 -0700
> Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/getopt.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
>> +/* musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license:
>> + *
>> + * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> + * Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Rich Felker, et al.
>> + *
>> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
>> + * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
>> + * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
>> + * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
>> + * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
>> + * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
>> + * the following conditions:
>> + *
>> + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>> + * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>> + *
> Although MIT license is similar to BSD license, it is not the same.
> The DPDK project has converged to only use BSD-3 for all DPDK code (and GPL for kernel code).
>
> Please find an alternative that is BSD licensed.

We discussed in the Windows Community call regarding the challenges we 
are facing to find and include

BSD-3 implementation of getopt and dirent files.

Please let us know if there can be any exceptions to include MIT license 
code for Windows

as mentionedin dpdk.org charter under 6.3 section.

Thomas, can you please comment on this?