linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:47:28 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:35 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
>
> * This file is licensed under GPLv2.
>
> In all the libsas files, but then muddied the water by quoting GPLv2
> verbatim (which includes the or later than language).

Ok, thanks for the explanation. And yes, that would have likely
confused people who just looked at the license text.

            Linus