Re: relay: License cleanup

Hi Thomas,

On 5/22/22 10:54, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Tom, Karim!
> 
> As you might know we are working on cleaning up the licensing mess in the
> kernel and convert it to SPDX license identifiers as the only source of
> license information.
> 
> Archaeology found unspecific GPL license references, which have been
> authored by you.
> 
> 1) this file is released under the gpl
> 
>     kernel/relay.c
> 
> Can you please either send cleanup patches for the affected files or
> indicate which GPLv2 variant you had in mind and I run it through my
> cleanup machinery.

Thanks for the ping.

I assume you mean the GPLv2 variants from here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0?h=v5.18-rc7

In that case, I'd say that the intent was to follow what Linus had been 
using: i.e. GPL-2.0 or GPL-2.0-only.

That said, since it was Tom that got this code included and did most of 
the work on it, I think he'd have to confirm what his view was as well.

Cheers,

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Karim Yaghmour
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