nvme-cli license clarification

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Mon May 16 09:21:03 PDT 2022


On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 06:16:08PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> 2. nvme.h
> 
>    The situation here is a bit simpler as Keith is 'owning' most
>    of the lines (monolithic and master branch are almost identically)
> 
>    Copyright (c) 2011-2014, Intel Corporation
> 
>     104 Keith Busch
>      26 Hannes Reinecke
>       6 Steven Seungcheol Lee
>       3 Sagi Grimberg
>       3 Christoph Hellwig
>       2 Scott Bauer
>       2 Minwoo Im
>       2 Martin Wilck
>       2 Daniel Wagner
>       1 Warner Losh
>       1 Tomasz Zawadzki
>       1 Ming Lin
>       1 Max Gurtovoy
>       1 Martin Belanger
>       1 Jeffrey Lien
>       1 James Smart
>       1 Brandon Paupore
> 
>   I suppose someone from Intel needs to signed of the 'or any later
>   version' thing. Keith do you happen to have a contact for this?

I am not sure of who would be interested at Intel in this anymore. This was
initially just a copy of the Linux kernel's header, though, and diverged
significantly from there, but I guess we'd need to inherit the original's
GPLv2 only license?



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