On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 07:02, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> This patch is a port of HFSC from altq to Linux 2.6. HFSC is a
> hierarchical packet scheduler which allows flexible resource
> allocation by decoupling of bandwidth and delay. The original
> version and a paper describing HFSC can be found here:
> http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html .
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I think it is a good idea to have this in the kernel. Glad someone
eventually got to it.
> The last issue is the License: The altq version is released under a
> BSD-style License without advertising clause (the original authors
> kindly agreed to remove it). It is my understanding that this is
> compatible with the GPL, and because the code includes some minor
> amounts of GPL'ed code the correct License is GPL and not
> Dual BSD/GPL. I would be glad if someone can confirm that this is
> correct.
>
This is probably the most contentious issue (given say current SCO
stoopidty).
Have you talked to the original author on this? I think granting you
written consent to move to GPL may be sufficient.
cheers,
jamal
PS:- i will look at the code and give you some feedback.
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