I think Linux-OpenIB is a perfect short identifier for this license. Regards, Dennis
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:15 AM, J Lovejoy <opensou...@jilayne.com> wrote: > oh crikey, naming is so hard! > > the rationale for using “Linux-OpenIB” was to differentiate from the > reality that OpenIB.org uses the real and full matching BSD-2-Clause - so > some kind of such differentiation is good. > > Happy to add references to other examples in the Notes tag. > > I’m torn as well - the Linux-specific reference feels less strong with > that many reference elsewhere. Using “openfabrics” is the same issue, > different tune. but I don’t know what else to come up with… > > OpenIB-BSD-MIT > > Other thoughts? > > Jilayne > > SPDX Legal Team co-lead > opensou...@jilayne.com > > > On Mar 22, 2018, at 12:06 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> > wrote: > > Kate: > > Thank you for this excellent background and research! > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Kate Stewart > <kstew...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception > > Linux Kernel Variant of OpenIB.org license > > Provide a proposed Short Identifier. > > Linux-OpenIB > > Provide a functioning url reference to the license or exception text, > either > from the author or a community recognized source. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/ > linux.git/tree/drivers/infiniband/core/sa.h > > > > FWIW, here is some extra information on usage of this license in these > user-space packages beyond the kernel: > > - 470 occurences in libfabric https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric > > - 246 occurences in rdma-core https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/ > > These may be better references than the kernel. > > Based on that, there could be an argument to have a different name / > id than Linux-OpenIB as this is not entirely Linux-specific. > The license is called BSD (MIT) at libfabric which is likely not a happy > name. > May be something like openfabrics-bsd may be a better name? > NB: I feel very weakly about which name to pick, so feel free to > ignore this entirely. > > -- > Cordially > Philippe Ombredanne > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-legal mailing list > Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-legal mailing list > Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal > >
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