From: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@hpe.com>
To: "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: "d.scott.phillips@intel.com" <d.scott.phillips@intel.com>,
"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: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:23:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191028192343.GA6342@anatevka.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76ca7b4effada2c7219f66c211946a8178994d1c.camel@hpe.com>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 08:54:35AM -0600, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 22:56 +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I agree with the plan.
>
I agree also.
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Thread overview: 6+ 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 21:52 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-10-25 22:45 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-25 22:56 ` Verma, Vishal L
2019-10-28 14:54 ` Kani, Toshi
2019-10-28 19:23 ` Jerry Hoemann [this message]
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