From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934088AbbELWbi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 18:31:38 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33626 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933352AbbELWbS (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 18:31:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:31:17 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "George G. Davis" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification Message-ID: <20150512223117.GA15915@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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 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