lustre_dlm_flags.h GPLv3 license clarification

Tue May 12 22:31:17 UTC 2015

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