Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934340AbbEMNJ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2015 09:09:59 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f180.google.com ([209.85.220.180]:34156 "EHLO mail-qk0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933431AbbEMNJ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2015 09:09:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:09:54 -0400 From: "George G. Davis" To: "Drokin, Oleg" Cc: "" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "" , "" Subject: Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification Message-ID: <20150513130954.GA10638@gandalf.middle.earth.net> References: <20150512224339.GB8747@gandalf.middle.earth.net> <42687947-E27C-4797-879B-E081B42CA2DF@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42687947-E27C-4797-879B-E081B42CA2DF@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 41 Hello Oleg, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:53:35AM +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote: > 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). Awesome, thanks! Looking forward to the patch. : ) -- Regards, George > > 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/