RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion

From: Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream
	<GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com>,
	GR-Linux-NIC-Dev <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>,
	Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>,
	"Manish Chopra" <manishc@marvell.com>
Cc: "linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org" <linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 05:19:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR18MB305281D28830537F81914796AF260@DM6PR18MB3052.namprd18.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR18MB30524C8D1F431EC8316C4051AF510@DM6PR18MB3052.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>

Lukas, Thomas,

We have got green signal from our internal legal and would like to give ACK for qla2xxx and qla4xxx driver license conversion.

Acked-by: Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nilesh Javali
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 5:23 PM
> To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>; qla2xxx-
> upstream@qlogic.com; QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com; GR-Linux-
> NIC-Dev <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>; Shahed Shaikh
> <shshaikh@marvell.com>; Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Subject: RE: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion
> 
> Lukas,
> 
> We have taken note of the comments and seeking opinion from our internal
> Legal team and will revert accordingly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nilesh
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:30 AM
> > To: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com; QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com;
> > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev <GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>; Nilesh Javali
> > <njavali@marvell.com>; Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@marvell.com>; Manish
> > Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>
> > Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Subject: [EXT] SECOND REMINDER on Qlogic driver license conversion
> >
> > External Email
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dear Qlogic driver maintainers, dear Nilesh, deat Shahed, dear Manish,
> >
> >
> > during an unrelated kernel clean-up task, I noticed some LICENSE files for
> > the qlogic drivers hanging around in Documentation.
> >
> > Thomas Gleixner has provided you a patch series in June 2019 to pick up or
> > simply add a Reviewed-by tag here:
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_20190606205526.447558989-
> >
> 40linutronix.de&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHI
> > ZL7SV63sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--
> IeEz_uofF2-
> > lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=Oft-T7CPXkIIPZqFYNlsWYYITwxxpz-LHyGtyVFH5qU&e=
> >
> > As it seems from the public mailing list archive, you have never responded
> > to Thomas' request. If you could indicate that the change is fine for you,
> > I am happy to rebase the patch series to the current next tree, so that
> > Thomas can pick that up and let it travel through the spdx tree to Linus
> > for the next release.
> >
> > See first reminder here:
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
> > 3A__lore.kernel.org_linux-2Dspdx_alpine.DEB.2.21.2006300644130.4919-
> >
> 40felia_&d=DwIBAg&c=nKjWec2b6R0mOyPaz7xtfQ&r=FAW9wuzbtHIZL7SV63
> > sr8rG59Hctu-eGu0G9pxwOXgQ&m=5_ut61ERR7QP6F0C--IeEz_uofF2-
> > lqWqCoV1U6yEtg&s=dwiuCg_O0vw8Zcy8WMO2ZMMEvlk04Ks_nkY-
> > R_ltRZ8&e=
> >
> > Just to let you know, I will send a third reminder in a few months, and
> > if there is no response to that, I will just send a patch to mark those
> > drivers where QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com or
> > GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com are maintainers as Orphaned, just to keep
> > MAINTAINERS reflect the actual state.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Lukas