[lustre-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lustre: refresh FSF licences

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

On 6/26/25 1:03 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> My policy is that it is up to the copyright holders to update their copyrights,
> so HPE should submit changes to the Oracle/Seagate/Xyratex messages, if they are
> so inclined.

You are right, in my previous e-mail I did miss the Seagate->Cray->HPE steps.
( for the record:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190517184639/http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2302693
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2019/09/hpe-completes-acquisition-of-supercomputing-leader-cray-inc.html )

Lustre's history is more convoluted than a soap opera:
Cluster File Systems -> Sun Microsystems -> Oracle -> Xyratex -> Seagate -> Cray -> HPE
Whamcloud -> Intel -> DDN

> However, it isn't clear if there was copyright transfer of the code between all
> of these companies, since it is open source and the assignment is not strictly
> necessary.

Press Release is very clear:

- Xyratex Advances Lustre® Initiative, Assumes Ownership of Related Assets:
     https://web.archive.org/web/20130224063137/http://www.xyratex.com/news/press-releases/xyratex-advances-lustre%C2%AE-initiative-assumes-ownership-related-assets
     "Xyratex has recently acquired the original Lustre trademark, logo,
     website and associated intellectual property from Oracle, and will
     assume responsibility for providing support to Lustre customers going
     forward."
and:
- Acquisition of Lustre® Assets from Oracle Corporation:
    https://wiki.lustre.org/images/2/25/LUG2013-Xyratex_Update-Kevin_Canady.pdf
    "• The Lustre assets include
     [...]
     - The intellectual property of all Lustre"

$ git grep -E "Copyright.*(Cluster|Oracle|Sun)"  | wc -l
520
At least, there are 520 are bogus copyright assignments.


And it was done repeatedly before:

Cluster File Systems -> Sun Microsystems
https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commitdiff;h=70e80ade90af09300396706b8910e196a7928520
git show 70e80ade90af09300396706b8910e196a7928520

Sun Microsystems -> Oracle
https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f8dca08a4f68cba82c2c822998ecc309d3b7aaf
git show f95393b0d0a59cf3dc2f29cffc35dcc4cc9d7728

Whamcloud -> Intel
https://git.whamcloud.com/?p=fs/lustre-release.git;a=commitdiff;h=08aa217ce49aba1ded52e0f7adb8a607035123fd
git show 08aa217ce49aba1ded52e0f7adb8a607035123fd


I think HPE and DDN should review it.