From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165B3C43381 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D411620657 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:03:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1550660636; bh=Jny4HHfcjWtdhpHSaW74OZosY0/PswoGzkpIDTLHJV8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=pO/46dYBuZwoOa9nmqhNGiyjVZrhjqitRrej1srctSR9BMJP7lmFqz9V+119XJgZj JUV3XcEZlPQs9Go283qJ9uubtP8/AWhaiJ/wkBxs0UORNNulpoPWyMUy5iqAW1MYD9 nZJbZLPQ5lNp4B+0cZCzcMp+vye6NMA2kGcMMFsc= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727996AbfBTLDz (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2019 06:03:55 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:40106 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727632AbfBTLDy (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2019 06:03:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [195.134.171.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C63B120685; Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:03:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1550660634; bh=Jny4HHfcjWtdhpHSaW74OZosY0/PswoGzkpIDTLHJV8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=eWUHTuyM5MAOlEUcZc6PnqM3MLJBycxKIdMrksPsdwBb6ltOx0bgl9v1UL9Mwu5+L 8AdLBnVVwYdS0Tkw8vHWIjlb/SVg1itCNDss98jvNQSdAzwzaljqtXYh+JMLugUAaT cJXktpJmO0KroRPpHagwaNVMLBkGraL7lPJL8YC0= Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:03:50 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Boaz harrosh Cc: linux-fsdevel , Anna Schumaker , Al Viro , Ric Wheeler , Miklos Szeredi , Steven Whitehouse , Jefff moyer , Amir Goldstein , Amit Golander , Sagi Manole Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/17] fs: Add the ZUF filesystem to the build + License Message-ID: <20190220110350.GA11937@kroah.com> References: <20190219115136.29952-1-boaz@plexistor.com> <20190219115136.29952-2-boaz@plexistor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190219115136.29952-2-boaz@plexistor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 01:51:20PM +0200, Boaz harrosh wrote: > However the ZUS user mode Server is a BSD-3-Clause licensed > project. > Therefor you will see that: > zus_api.h > md_def.h > md.h > These are common files with ZUS project are separately Licensed as > BSD-3-Clause. Any contributor to these files should note that his > code for these files is submitted as BSD-3-Clause. > This is for the obvious reasons as these define the API between Kernel > an user-mode Server. It is the opinion of this project authors, as is > of Linus that a pure API header is not governed by ANY license. But > to make it clear. No, that is not true, the files do have a license. Please see the proper SPDX text that we use for kernel api .h files for what that is, and what you should also use for yours, if you go through with this. thanks, greg k-h