1The SPDK repo contains multiple git submodules each with its own 2license info. 3 4Submodule license info: 5dpdk: see dpdk/license 6intel-ipsec-mb: see intel-ipsec-mb/LICENSE 7isa-l: see isa-l/LICENSE 8libvfio-user: see libvfio-user/LICENSE 9ocf: see ocf/LICENSE 10 11The rest of the SPDK repository uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause 12license. SPDK also uses SPDX Unique License Identifiers to eliminate 13the need to copy the license text into each individual file. 14 15Any new file contributions to SPDK shall adhere to the BSD-3-Clause 16license and use SPDX identifiers. Exceptions are subject to usual 17review and must be listed in this file. 18 19Exceptions: 20 21* include/linux/* header files are BSD-3-Clause but do not use SPDX 22 identifier to keep them identical to the same header files in the 23 Linux kernel source tree. 24 25* include/spdk/tree.h and include/spdk/queue_extras are BSD-2-Clause, 26 since there were primarily imported from FreeBSD. tree.h uses an SPDX 27 identifier but also the license text to reduce differences from the 28 FreeBSD source tree. 29 30* lib/util/base64_neon.c is BSD-2-Clause. 31 32* lib/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h is BSD-2-Clause . 33