Re: [PATCH 2/5] misc: mlx5ctl: Add mlx5ctl misc driver

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:19:38AM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB
> 
> For dual-licensed code, I need a LOT of documentation as to why this
> must be dual-licensed, AND a signed-off-by from your corporate lawyer
> agreeing to it so they convey an understanding of just how complex and
> messy this will get over time and what you are agreeing to do here.

Can you provide a brief or whitepaper discussing this complexity
please? This pushback is news to me, Mellanox and the RDMA ecosystem
has been doing this for over 15 years now. I would need something
substantive to have a conversation with our legal.

However, I believe we can get an exception approval for single license
MIT or BSD-3-Clause for this code.

Thanks,
Jason