Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965050AbbEMBxk (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 21:53:40 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:13352 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964922AbbEMBxh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 21:53:37 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,418,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="725017944" From: "Drokin, Oleg" To: "George G. Davis" CC: "" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "" , "" Subject: Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification Thread-Topic: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification Thread-Index: AQHQjQUb342QUAwOd0OZQs//+SqBS515mo2A Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 01:53:35 +0000 Message-ID: <42687947-E27C-4797-879B-E081B42CA2DF@intel.com> References: <20150512224339.GB8747@gandalf.middle.earth.net> In-Reply-To: <20150512224339.GB8747@gandalf.middle.earth.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.254.57.54] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <043CDEA6D4E6454386FD40E01D481939@intel.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1175 Lines: 30 Hello! On May 12, 2015, at 6:43 PM, George G. Davis wrote: > Greetings, > > Resending this using the correct version of get_maintainers.pl. > > As recommended in the thread "SPDX-License-Identifier? [1], I would like to followup with the > maintainers of the file drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_dlm_flags.h regarding the GPLv3 > license statement contained in that file [2]. Is there an GPLv3 exception clause which can be applied > for this file similar to the bison exception clause or is this file licensed only under GPLv3 only in which > case it would appear to be incompatible with the Linux kernel license [3]? Duh. It appears that the file was automatically generated in the lustre tree with autogen and somebody forgot to specify gpl version, so it defaulted to v3: [= (gpl "lustre" " * ") =] Thanks. I think we'll be able to change that to gplv2 easily (to match the rest of Lustre). Bye, Oleg-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/