Messages in this thread | | | From | "Drokin, Oleg" <> | Subject | Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification | Date | Wed, 13 May 2015 01:53:35 +0000 |
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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).
Bye, Oleg
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