From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71B1CDB47E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:22:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231489AbjJRSWp (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:22:45 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33664 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229963AbjJRSWn (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:22:43 -0400 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 887E9B8 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EE4FC433C7; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:22:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1697653362; bh=Z0/kyvAglhtuyBQOMTn6iPapzzkCidyo198TuQNITBw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=FZv3gjUGPoaC+V1xBLzmI8fMPLyNbjqnoJwX9KTAonIueexqkILH8Mm1yw7WsXMzP OxLlTolJ7W4WWffGhiZP+T2nwjyB+WFNNU3fJk1bwSsv3WZbCvoSm7Fjbgx3ZGXpGv gWiEhiPIVdxsfztRhdCef36rCjSDylYctRe5GcBw= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:22:39 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Saeed Mahameed , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky , Jiri Pirko , Saeed Mahameed Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver Message-ID: <2023101808-quicksand-roman-0da7@gregkh> References: <20231018081941.475277-1-saeed@kernel.org> <20231018081941.475277-3-saeed@kernel.org> <2023101835-trapdoor-unicycle-788a@gregkh> <20231018180128.GA719006@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231018180128.GA719006@nvidia.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 03:01:28PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:19:38AM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB > > > > For dual-licensed code, I need a LOT of documentation as to why this > > must be dual-licensed, AND a signed-off-by from your corporate lawyer > > agreeing to it so they convey an understanding of just how complex and > > messy this will get over time and what you are agreeing to do here. > > Can you provide a brief or whitepaper discussing this complexity > please? This pushback is news to me, Mellanox and the RDMA ecosystem > has been doing this for over 15 years now. I would need something > substantive to have a conversation with our legal. Have your legal talk to the LF legal working group, they are the ones that told me never to mess with this license again. I'm sure that nvidia's lawyers are part of this group, so let's let them hash it out. > However, I believe we can get an exception approval for single license > MIT or BSD-3-Clause for this code. GPLv2 please, otherwise again, I'm going to demand a really really good reason why Linux kernel code needs a non-GPL license and again, a sign off from your lawyers explaining why it must be so. thanks, greg k-h