netdev - Re: DCCP Deprecation

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:31:32 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
Cc: Gregorio Maglione <Gregorio.Maglione@...y.ac.uk>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
 <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Florian Westphal
 <fw@...len.de>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DCCP Deprecation

On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:22:53 -0700
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:

> I think it would be better to review others' patches or post patches before
> stepping up as a maintainer.
> 
> However, this repo seems to have a license issue that cannot be upstreamed
> as is.
> https://github.com/telekom/mp-dccp

The whole license here is a mess. IMHO it is using existing DCCP code
as base, which makes it a "derived work" under GPL rules.