[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] sched: patches for 2.2

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Mar 8 17:33:02 CET 2016


On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:49:20 +0000
"Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com> wrote:

> Regarding Stephen's patches, I think there is a pending issue regarding the legal side of the Copyright, which is attributed to Intel, although Stephen's code is relicensed with BSD license by permission from the original code author (which also submitted the code to Linux kernel under GPL). This was already flagged. This is a legal issue and I do not feel comfortable with ack-ing this patch until the legal resolution on this is crystal clear.


I got explicit permission from the author who holds the copyright to relicense it.


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