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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "George G. Davis" <ggdavisiv@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:31:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150512223117.GA15915@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FE5CD806-B7D1-4795-9304-3A14AFD9C032@gmail.com>

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...)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-12 22:05 lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification George G. Davis
2015-05-12 22:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-05-12 22:40   ` George G. Davis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-12 22:43 George G. Davis
2015-05-13  1:53 ` Drokin, Oleg
2015-05-13 13:09   ` George G. Davis

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