linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uapi: Add the BSD-2-Clause license to ndctl.h

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Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:45:33 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     D Scott Phillips <d.scott.phillips@...el.com>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@....com>,
        stuart hayes <stuart.w.hayes@...il.com>,
        Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: Add the BSD-2-Clause license to ndctl.h

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:55 AM D Scott Phillips
<d.scott.phillips@...el.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.