Re: relay: License cleanup

Hi Thomas and Karim,

On Sun, 2022-05-22 at 14:14 -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 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.

Yes, GPL-2.0-only was the intent, so please use that and run it through
your cleanup machinery, thanks.

Or I can send a cleanup patch if that's easier for you, just let me
know.

Thanks,

Tom

> 
> Cheers,
>