From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:36570 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343AbeCUBJV (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:09:21 -0400 Message-ID: <1521594560.15055.10.camel@intel.com> Subject: Re: [net-next] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel drivers From: Jeff Kirsher To: Philippe Ombredanne , "Allan, Bruce W" Cc: Joe Perches , "davem@davemloft.net" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "nhorman@redhat.com" , "sassmann@redhat.com" , "jogreene@redhat.com" , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:09:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20180320171320.10826-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <1521567660.12047.5.camel@perches.com> <1521568343.12746.4.camel@intel.com> <804857E1F29AAC47BF68C404FC60A184ED5CCD20@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HJ7XKxO5htYbZ9HSWEzE" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-HJ7XKxO5htYbZ9HSWEzE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 16:46 -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Allan, >=20 > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Allan, Bruce W > wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.o > > > rg] > > > On Behalf Of Jeff Kirsher > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:52 AM > > > To: Joe Perches ; davem@davemloft.net; Philippe > > > Ombredanne > > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; nhorman@redhat.com; sassmann@redhat.com; > > > jogreene@redhat.com > > > Subject: Re: [net-next] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel > > > drivers > > >=20 > > > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 10:41 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 10:13 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > > > > Add the SPDX identifiers to all the Intel wired LAN driver files, > > > > > as > > > > > outlined in Documentation/process/license-rules.rst. > > > >=20 > > > > So far the Documentation does not show using the -only variant. > > > >=20 > > > > For a discussion, please see: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/8/311 > >=20 > > But the Linux Foundation, the authority maintaining the valid SPDX > > identifiers, indicates at https://spdx.org/licenses/ that "GPL-2.0" is > > deprecated while "GPL-2.0-only" (and others) is appropriate. > > Was there any mention in the thread or other conversations if/when the > > kernel's documentation (and all existing uses of "GPL-2.0" in the > > kernel) will be updated to "GPL-2.0-only"? >=20 > The kernel (as documented by Thomas [1]) is using for now the V2.6 of > the SPDX licenses list. [2] IMHO the reference should be the kernel > doc and nothing else to ensure consistency and avoid confusion (which > obviously was not avoided entirely here ;) ). >=20 > What happened is in late December a new version 3 was published by > SPDX and the v2.6 is no longer online. I will bring this up to the > SPDX group because we should be able to reference the version 2.6 > online (it is still in git though [2]). >=20 > When the kernel maintainers decide to switch to V3.0 of the SPDX list, > the doc will be updated and then Joe's script could be applied at once > to update the past. I am fine with changing my patch back to v2.6 SPDX ids, as long as Joe's script in the future won't touch the Intel wired LAN drivers, since we need to retain copyright on several files through out our drivers. >=20 > What matters most here is consistency: having some v2.6 and some v3.0 > SPDX ids at once is not a happy thing IMHO. I understand that having a mix of v2.6 and v3.0 SPDX at once is not a happy thing. > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/D > ocumentation/process/license-rules.rst > [2] https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/tree/v2.6 --=-HJ7XKxO5htYbZ9HSWEzE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEiTyZWz+nnTrOJ1LZ5W/vlVpL7c4FAlqxsMAACgkQ5W/vlVpL 7c7wSA/+KWqFwy8lqAxDMNxQLmUaVwks6BPkq19r0hKrEYJIAOU1NJ+8sW5mB0r4 Qz0PauW17qzcSQbkKRztS643z+u/kAq7JGxnfG6iswZsl2Y4BPLxwd8snxwEygrr 9Qw3rd+zxVGPTuw0F5FLOewhkgoj7m6g1nZxsH3VNWE5gJ387bgwvWmni/MD4eOp 779vzKLooQ9ZrDL7DgDNBzJy1Soyrf1s5RkKTCio0eEBHG8VK+Dex1HJM8HMOzf1 4QjEBOZoJ+MNhGs9xuzYr09yIDSSw1z+kjzVXZujB5u1N5BSB/aVINnIyqIqJe42 +0XiRS6+jvfkTaWmamO24urkgP0nMTDVtsHdS9NmH0xmJLYb6bxrnpmfm3yBHWIp LJQge2cois/EH0Gpy70RCB2SMMTMH8rSUzuGWTOaHty2o2XHhop6bjXjc9RpsOlr A7NDcColMcPh8DFRV0CPbZialoArQSMRqmaVhtvugZ/m+W3TUs5gnfhq/FiMCQrm rQGIyhaKhlAW13ORqvQIetL+lCwTyWus9rQ9t+djlLaJ+DB0+/f0x/FP0hbNwzkl rX7N0lUiL3lwXxdFDZHC54dKoWlU9deg/f8A7tb1SfK4FOEBEoAA6W5ShTV6Tmyc luIil3XN2SjVzbGyx8EVftgsoT2+Cw9nfUVNWmhlZj46g8w7g44= =kfhg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HJ7XKxO5htYbZ9HSWEzE--