[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/9] eal: add windows compatible header files

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:11:23 -0700
Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam at intel.com> wrote:

> On 9/10/2019 2:19 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon,  9 Sep 2019 12:53:58 -0700
> > Pallavi Kadam <pallavi.kadam at intel.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/include/getopt.h
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
> >> +/* musl as a whole is licensed under the following standard MIT license:
> >> + *
> >> + * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> + * Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Rich Felker, et al.
> >> + *
> >> + * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
> >> + * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
> >> + * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
> >> + * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
> >> + * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
> >> + * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
> >> + * the following conditions:
> >> + *
> >> + * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> >> + * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> >> + *  
> > Although MIT license is similar to BSD license, it is not the same.
> > The DPDK project has converged to only use BSD-3 for all DPDK code (and GPL for kernel code).
> >
> > Please find an alternative that is BSD licensed.  
> 
> We discussed in the Windows Community call regarding the challenges we 
> are facing to find and include
> 
> BSD-3 implementation of getopt and dirent files.
> 
> Please let us know if there can be any exceptions to include MIT license 
> code for Windows
> 
> as mentionedin dpdk.org charter under 6.3 section.
> 
> Thomas, can you please comment on this?
> 

To  get exception needs at least TAB and probably even governing board approval.