Re: GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

> On Sep 3, 2015, at 13:18, Jeff Meegan wrote: > > According to their EULA, it is BSD licensed. > > http://www.mellanox.com/page/mlnx_ofed_eula?mtag=linux_sw_drivers Yes, but the 9.1 version wasn't strictly from Mellanox.. I don't know if I'd use the pre-Mellanox version though, tbh. Thanks,

Re: GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

According to their EULA, it is BSD licensed. http://www.mellanox.com/page/mlnx_ofed_eula?mtag=linux_sw_drivers —j > On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > > We (meaning Intel when I was still there) raised this issue

Re: GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

We (meaning Intel when I was still there) raised this issue with George a long time ago, I'm not sure what the resolution was. If Mellanox is the owner then they should have released the code somewhere without any GPL license in it, as Intel does with code they multi-license. Jack On Thu, Sep 3

Re: GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

On Sep 3, 2015 10:33 AM, "Vijay Singh" wrote: > > 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? That sounds bizarre since mellanox wrote the code and explicitly dual licensed. The problem you *do* run in t

Re: GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

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 wrote: > > > On Aug 31, 2015, at 09:34, Hrishikesh Keremane via freebsd-hackers < > freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org>

GPL issues around OFED code in FreeBSD 9.1

[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 o