GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

[Vijay Singh]

Someone told me that once the OFED code hit kernel.org the GPL is the only
license that applies. Does anyone have insights about that?

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Aug 31, 2015, at 09:34, Hrishikesh Keremane via freebsd-hackers <
> freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > [Sorry for cross posting]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are working on a product(FreeBSD based) that would require RDMA over
> iWARP and are considering using the OFED stack in FreeBSD 9.1.
> > We will be making some changes to the OFED stack to customize it to our
> requirements.
> >
> > The concern is regarding the implications of GPL licensing of OFED on
> our code base.
> > Has anyone worked with OFED in FreeBSD and/or is aware of the licensing
> issues around it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Please include me in your replies as I am not subscribed to these lists.
>
> The OFED stack is BSD/GPLv2 dual licensed IIRC. the Mellanox import might
> have made it 100% BSD licensed though.
>
> There's FreeBSD-infiniband at freebsd.org as well. It's a low traffic list,
> but it might hit a better target audience in the future.
>
> Cheers,
> -NGie
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