[dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2019-09-25

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 4:03 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> 2. SPDX licenses (standing agenda item):
>
>         Hemant provided an update on the gaps to be closed for achieving
>         use of SPDX tags alone (i.e. no license text in files) in 19.11.
>         Key gaps:
>
>         * Issue identified with pmdinfogen using GPL derived code, meaning
>           it needs a license exception. Tech board has approved the
>           exception and the request will now be passed to the governing
>           board for final approval. Thereafter an update will be made to
>           the file "license/exceptions.txt" in the DPDK repo

The patch is here https://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/59976/

Did we get a formal approval from the governing board?


Thanks.
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David Marchand