InfiniBand arrives (with Microsoft patents?)

InfiniBand arrives (with Microsoft patents?)

In older versions of the drivers one could find this text.
It would be nice if this question about SDP
was cleared out.

> OPENIB.ORG SDP SOURCE (2004-03-17 drop)
> ---------- --- ------
>
> This package contains SDP sources that may contain Microsoft
> intellectual property. See below for more details.

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> SDP INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
> --- ------------ --------
>
> Microsoft believes that they own certain intellectual property
> relating to the Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP)[1]. Therefore, we are
> including the following disclaimer required by Microsoft's license
> in SDP source that relates to the implementation of the protocol:
>
> "This source code may incorporate intellectual property owned by
> Microsoft Corporation. Our provision of this source code does not
> include any licenses or any other rights to you under any
> Microsoft intellectual property. If you would like a license from
> Microsoft (e.g., to rebrand, redistribute), you need to contact
> Microsoft directly."

> We realize that this is incompatible with open source licensing, and
> we are working to find a more satisfactory solution, but for the
> time being we are forced to comply with Microsoft's license.

> Please make sure you have fully understood the implications of
> Microsoft's claims before you redistribute any of the SDP source
> that contains the above disclaimer.

> [1] <http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/standards/>>