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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Phillips, D Scott" <d.scott.phillips@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	"stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com" <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>,
	"dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: Add the BSD-2-Clause license to ndctl.h
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:56:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38f7f4852ad1cc76c7c7473a6fda85cb9acae14c.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iQpO+JF8b7NUJUZ3fQFU=PWFeiWrXSd47QGnQPeRsrTg@mail.gmail.com>


On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 15:45 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:55 AM D Scott Phillips
> <d.scott.phillips@intel.com> wrote:
> > Allow ndctl.h to be licensed with BSD-2-Clause so that other
> > operating systems can provide the same user level interface.
> > ---
> > 
> > I've been working on nvdimm support in FreeBSD and would like to
> > offer the same ndctl API there to ease porting of application
> > code. Here I'm proposing to add the BSD-2-Clause license to this
> > header file, so that it can later be copied into FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I believe that all the authors of changes to this file (in the To:
> > list) would need to agree to this change before it could be
> > accepted, so any signed-off-by is intentionally ommited for now.
> > Thanks,
> 
> I have no problem with this change, but let's take the opportunity to
> let SPDX do its job and drop the full license text.

This is fine by me too, barring the full license text vs. SPDX caveat
Dan mentions.
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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Phillips, D Scott" <d.scott.phillips@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	"decui@microsoft.com" <decui@microsoft.com>,
	"jerry.hoemann@hpe.com" <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>,
	"toshi.kani@hpe.com" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>,
	"stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com" <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>,
	"dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: Add the BSD-2-Clause license to ndctl.h
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:56:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38f7f4852ad1cc76c7c7473a6fda85cb9acae14c.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iQpO+JF8b7NUJUZ3fQFU=PWFeiWrXSd47QGnQPeRsrTg@mail.gmail.com>


On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 15:45 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:55 AM D Scott Phillips
> <d.scott.phillips@intel.com> wrote:
> > Allow ndctl.h to be licensed with BSD-2-Clause so that other
> > operating systems can provide the same user level interface.
> > ---
> > 
> > I've been working on nvdimm support in FreeBSD and would like to
> > offer the same ndctl API there to ease porting of application
> > code. Here I'm proposing to add the BSD-2-Clause license to this
> > header file, so that it can later be copied into FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I believe that all the authors of changes to this file (in the To:
> > list) would need to agree to this change before it could be
> > accepted, so any signed-off-by is intentionally ommited for now.
> > Thanks,
> 
> I have no problem with this change, but let's take the opportunity to
> let SPDX do its job and drop the full license text.

This is fine by me too, barring the full license text vs. SPDX caveat
Dan mentions.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-25 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-25 17:55 [PATCH] uapi: Add the BSD-2-Clause license to ndctl.h D Scott Phillips
2019-10-25 17:55 ` D Scott Phillips
2019-10-25 21:52 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-10-25 21:52   ` Dexuan Cui
2019-10-25 22:45 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-25 22:45   ` Dan Williams
2019-10-25 22:56   ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]
2019-10-25 22:56     ` Verma, Vishal L
2019-10-28 14:54     ` Kani, Toshi
2019-10-28 14:54       ` Kani, Toshi
2019-10-28 19:23       ` Jerry Hoemann
2019-10-28 19:23         ` Jerry Hoemann

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