linux-kernel - Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

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Message-ID: <20150513130954.GA10638@gandalf.middle.earth.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 09:09:54 -0400
From:	"George G. Davis" <ggdavisiv@...il.com>
To:	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
Cc:	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"<devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"<HPDD-discuss@...ts.01.org>" <HPDD-discuss@...ts.01.org>
Subject: Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

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
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