From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabio M. Di Nitto Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:15:53 +0200 Subject: [Cluster-devel] dlm: master - add license/copyright headers In-Reply-To: <20111006181219.GA6746@redhat.com> References: <20111006171128.5A9FD1201E8@lists.fedorahosted.org> <4E8DED22.6040707@redhat.com> <20111006181219.GA6746@redhat.com> Message-ID: <4E8DF059.5030707@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/06/2011 08:12 PM, David Teigland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:02:10PM +0200, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> this is going to need another quick pass. >> >> The libdlm headers are fine, but for the daemon/tool, we had GPLv2+ in >> STABLE31 and current header only reflects GPLv2. > > I'm defaulting to plain v2 unless there's a reason to do otherwise. You can't just re-license without a written agreement from all code contributors (past and present). We did this process a while ago to avoid linking issues with other libraries that are at GPLv3 or you need some exceptions and so on. It's easier to just keep the GPLv2+ license as it was. Fabio