Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/21] Add HiSilicon RoCE driver

[Wei Hu (Xavier)]

Hi, Doug Ledford

We will modify the license description of the beginning of the code file 
in  patch v8.
Thanks

Regards
Wei Hu

On 2016/5/14 5:09, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 05/09/2016 11:04 PM, Lijun Ou wrote:
> > The HiSilicon Network Substem is a long term evolution IP which is
> > supposed to be used in HiSilicon ICT SoCs. HNS (HiSilicon Network
> > Sybsystem) also has a hardware support of performing RDMA with
> > RoCEE.
> > The driver for HiSilicon RoCEE(RoCE Engine) is a platform driver and
> > will support mulitple versions of SOCs in future. This version of driver
> > is meant to support Hip06 SoC(which confirms to RoCEEv1 hardware
> > specifications).
> >
> > Changes v6 -> v7:
> > 1. modify some type of parameter, use bool replace the original type.
> > 2. add the Signed-off-by signatures in the first patch.
> > 3. delete the improper print sentence in hns_roce_create_eq.
> One thing you should be aware of (but which you may not care about,
> which is fine) is that if you want your driver to be available as part
> of the OpenFabric Alliances OFED distribution, the license on the files
> would need to be "GPL or BSD" (see the remainder of the RDMA stack for
> examples).  If you don't want that license on your files, I'm fine with
> that, and I won't hold up your submission based on the license.  If,
> however, you *do* want your code to be shipable as part of OFED, it is
> much easier to update the license on the files before you submit them
> and third parties modify them.  If you want to change the license later,
> you have to get every person that has made any substantive change to the
> file to agree to the license change.