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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:57:22 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
CC: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, openib-general@openib.org,
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Subject: Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel?
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Roland Dreier wrote:
> As for IP, as far as I know, there has been no change to any of the
> bylaws or other members agreements.  If there is some specific
> provision that concerns you, please bring it to our attention -- the
> IBTA in general and the IBTA steering committee in general have been
> very supportive of the OpenIB effort.  In fact, most of the IBTA
> steering commitee companies (Agilent, HP, IBM, InfiniCon, Intel,
> Mellanox, Sun, Topspin, and Voltaire) have been active participants in
> OpenIB development.  I would hope we can resolve any issues relating
> to open source and the Linux kernel.


Read the member agreement :)  It -explicitly- does -not- require waiving 
of patent claims related to any implementation of IB.

That's different from ATA, SCSI, USB, the list goes on...

	Jeff


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