[Cluster-devel] dlm: master - add license/copyright headers
Fabio M. Di Nitto
fdinitto at redhat.com
Thu Oct 6 18:15:53 UTC 2011
On 10/06/2011 08:12 PM, David Teigland wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:02:10PM +0200, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> this is going to need another quick pass.
>>
>> The libdlm headers are fine, but for the daemon/tool, we had GPLv2+ in
>> STABLE31 and current header only reflects GPLv2.
>
> I'm defaulting to plain v2 unless there's a reason to do otherwise.
You can't just re-license without a written agreement from all code
contributors (past and present). We did this process a while ago to
avoid linking issues with other libraries that are at GPLv3 or you need
some exceptions and so on.
It's easier to just keep the GPLv2+ license as it was.
Fabio
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