From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934157AbbELWkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 18:40:21 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:36799 "EHLO mail-qc0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753877AbbELWkO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 18:40:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 18:40:11 -0400 From: "George G. Davis" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification Message-ID: <20150512224011.GA8747@gandalf.middle.earth.net> References: <20150512223117.GA15915@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20150512223117.GA15915@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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-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]? > > 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