Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

From: George G. Davis
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 18:40:25 EST


Hello Greg,

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:31:17PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 06:05:24PM -0400, George G. Davis wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > 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]?
>
> Please resend this to the owners of this file (hint, get_maintainers.pl
> will get you the list...)

Oops, I had an old v3.14.41 based version of get_maintainers.pl checked
out.

I'll resend after using the correct version of get_maintainers.pl.

Thanks!

--
Regards,
George

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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