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Date:   Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:23:43 -0600
From:   Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
To:     "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: Add the BSD-2-Clause license to ndctl.h
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 08:54:35AM -0600, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 22:56 +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 15:45 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:55 AM D Scott Phillips
> > > <d.scott.phillips@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > Allow ndctl.h to be licensed with BSD-2-Clause so that other
> > > > operating systems can provide the same user level interface.
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > > I've been working on nvdimm support in FreeBSD and would like to
> > > > offer the same ndctl API there to ease porting of application
> > > > code. Here I'm proposing to add the BSD-2-Clause license to this
> > > > header file, so that it can later be copied into FreeBSD.
> > > > 
> > > > I believe that all the authors of changes to this file (in the To:
> > > > list) would need to agree to this change before it could be
> > > > accepted, so any signed-off-by is intentionally ommited for now.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > I have no problem with this change, but let's take the opportunity to
> > > let SPDX do its job and drop the full license text.
> > 
> > This is fine by me too, barring the full license text vs. SPDX caveat
> > Dan mentions.
> 
> I agree with the plan.
> 
I agree also.

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Jerry Hoemann                  Software Engineer   Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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