Re: [HPDD-discuss] lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

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