[dm-devel] treewide: License cleanup - RedHat originated

[Mike Snitzer]

On Sun, May 22 2022 at  2:12P -0400,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:

> Richard!
> 
> On Sun, May 22 2022 at 13:33, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 10:55 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:
> > I assume you're selecting files that have some sort of Red Hat or
> > Sistina copyright notice. Just as a disclaimer, I can't speak to
> > copyrights in these files that may be held by other organizations or
> > individuals (and I can't say definitively whether any file bearing a
> > Red Hat or Sistina copyright notice has or retains any copyright owned
> > by Red Hat). With that said:
> >
> >> 1) this file is released under the gpl
> >
> > I am fine with saying that any Red Hat copyrights (including any
> > Sistina copyrights acquired by Red Hat) in these can be represented
> > with SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0.
> >
> > I would note that the following files did not seem to have any Red Hat
> > or Sistina copyright notices:
> >
> >>    drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c
> >>    drivers/md/dm-ps-queue-length.c
> >>    drivers/md/dm-ps-service-time.c
> >>    drivers/md/dm-unstripe.c
> >>    drivers/md/dm-zero.c
> 
> Oops, yes. They are clearly flagged as not Red Hat.

True, though Red Hat has contributed code to these files and continues
to mainatin these files.

If we need further approval from original authors I can work to reach
out to them.

Thanks,
Mike