Re: [PATCH blktests] block/042,043, src/dio-offsets.c: relicense from GPL-2.0 to GPL-3.0+

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-block
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 8/21/26 3:55 AM, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> Most blktests code, including check and common/rc, is licensed under
> GPL-3.0+. However, tests/block/042, 043 and src/dio-offsets.c are
> licensed under GPL-2.0 only. These test scripts source GPL-3.0+ shell
> code, but GPL-2.0-only code is incompatible with GPL-3.0 code [1]. The C
> source file provides the helper executable used by block/042.
> 
> Relicense all three files under GPL-3.0 or later to resolve this
> incompatibility.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
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