[osol-discuss] Recent putback of PSARC 2006/356 Reliable Datagram Sockets

[Cyril Plisko]

Hi !

On Dec 20 the putback for
PSARC 2006/356 Reliable Datagram Sockets
6433451 Solaris support for Reliable Datagram Sockets over Infiniband
- RDS (2006/356)
went into the ON. Among other things there were afew files carried over from
OpenIB project. For example :

usr/src/uts/common/io/ib/clients/rds/rdsib_buf.c

  26  * Copyright (c) 2005 SilverStorm Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
  27  *
  28  * This software is available to you under a choice of one of two
  29  * licenses.  You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the GNU
  30  * General Public License (GPL) Version 2, available from the file
  31  * COPYING in the main directory of this source tree, or the
  32  * OpenIB.org BSD license below:

[BSD license text yanked]

  57 /*
  58  * Sun elects to include this software in Sun product
  59  * under the OpenIB BSD license.


That last sentence sounds a bit odd to me. While only Sun gets
to decide what to include in Sun product, we are talking about
OpenSolaris here. And it is not a Sun decision what license to
choose. In this specific case I am sure the choice of license is
obviously correct. In general, however, comments like that should
not, IMHO, appear in the OpenSolaris code base.
It is to be decided by community/CAB/OGB what license to
use in OpenSolaris code base.

So is it a sign of Sun isn't taking it [OpenSolaris] seriously, or
a trivial ignorance of most of the Sun' developers ?

-- 
Regards,
        Cyril