Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

From: Drokin, Oleg
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 21:53:45 EST


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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