Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

From: George G. Davis
Date: Wed May 13 2015 - 09:10:04 EST


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-Identifierâ [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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