Re: blktests: call for agreement to relicense GPL-2.0 files

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 5:52 AM Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 27, 2026 / 13:10, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> [...]
> > Bart, Ming and Keith,
> >
> >   May I ask you to create and post a patch to change the license of the files
> >   you authored from GPL-2.0 to GPL-3.0+?
> >
> >   - Bart: block/029,030,031
> >     Contributors: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> >                 Li Zhijian <[email protected]>
> >                 Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
> >                 Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <[email protected]>
> >   - Ming: block/040
> >   - Keith: block/042,043, src/dio-offsets.c
> >     Contributors: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <[email protected]>
> >                 John Pittman <[email protected]>
> >                 Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
> >
> >   If you are too busy, please let me know. I can create the patch on your
> >   behalf, but since this is a license change, it's better if you author it
> >   yourselves.
>
> I rethought and decided to take my liberty to create the patches for the
> relicensing on behalf of the authors. I will send out the patches soon.
>
> Authors, and contributors,
>
> May I ask your responses to the patches with you Acked-by tags?
> Thanks in advance.

Acked-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>


thanks,
Ming Lei