[dpdk-dev] tools brainstorming

[Stephen Hemminger]

The userspace code has to be BSD ( no GPL ).
The Linux kernel code must be GPLv2 or BSD/GPL license.
The other kernel code should be BSD/GPL.


On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 11:16:03AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I prefer the file just say that it is BSD or GPL and refer to license
> files
> > in the package. That way if something has to change it doesn't need a
> > massive license sweep
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I hope we're also enforcing some requirement that all user-space files that
> are expected to be used inside of the address space apps must be BSD, MIT,
> or
> other license which allows binary redistribution, as part of these
> standards.
> Or we could end up causing a lot of pain for the app developers if somebody
> puts a bunch of GPL files into the user-space code which blocks their
> usage.
>
> For the Linux kernel side files, we probably need to say BSD, MIT, or GPLv2
> specifically, and not GPLv3, I think that's what Linus is using, or it
> could
> be a problem to upstream any of those as DPDK usage grows.
>
> For the BSD kernel side files, if any, probably need to be sure we're
> compatible with at least FreeBSD and NetBSD, and probably also OpenBSD.
>
> Matthew.
>