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

From: Dan Williams
Date: Fri Oct 25 2019 - 18:45:50 EST


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