From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
To: Stefan Roese <sr-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
Cc: monstr-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org,
balbi-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
Wolfgang Denk <wd-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:06:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150202160622.GA9852@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CF9B12.2070807-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 21.02.2014 17:18, Michal Simek wrote:
> >On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> >>>On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> >>>>>BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier
> >>>>>which will be nice to start to use.
> >>>>
> >>>>I agree, feel free to start sending patches to use this type of
> >>>>identifier for drivers.
> >>>
> >>>But we probably need to add that Licenses to one location.
> >>>Documentation/Licenses?
> >>
> >>Just add to the drivers themselves, just like u-boot is doing. A simple:
> >>
> >> $ git grep -e SPDX-License-Identifier
> >>
> >>will tell you filename and license. Or did I misunderstand your question ?
> >
> >But for doing this it is probably necessary to have location where
> >you will place that licenses and you will explain what it is how
> >it is done by Wolfgang in this commit.
> >
> >http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=eca3aeb352c964bdb28b8e191d6326370245e03f
> >
> >Then yes, adding one line is enough.
> I would like to revive this thread regarding SPDX license identifiers in the
> Linux kernel. And check how to best start / proceed with the integration
> now.
Why do you want to do this?
> Greg, if you are open to patches adding this one-line SPDX license tag to
> the source code, how should I begin with such a task in your opinion? Should
> I add those tags for just one driver directory (e.g. drivers/base/*) first?
> And send those patches to the list(s) for review. Or do you have other
> suggestions on how to start with this task?
Is one tag per directory sufficient? Is one tag per file sufficient?
How about one tag per package? If package, then isn't a single tag for
the whole kernel source tree sufficient, as we all know the overall
license for the kernel source tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: monstr@monstr.eu, balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:06:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150202160622.GA9852@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CF9B12.2070807@denx.de>
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 21.02.2014 17:18, Michal Simek wrote:
> >On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> >>>On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>>>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> >>>>>BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier
> >>>>>which will be nice to start to use.
> >>>>
> >>>>I agree, feel free to start sending patches to use this type of
> >>>>identifier for drivers.
> >>>
> >>>But we probably need to add that Licenses to one location.
> >>>Documentation/Licenses?
> >>
> >>Just add to the drivers themselves, just like u-boot is doing. A simple:
> >>
> >> $ git grep -e SPDX-License-Identifier
> >>
> >>will tell you filename and license. Or did I misunderstand your question ?
> >
> >But for doing this it is probably necessary to have location where
> >you will place that licenses and you will explain what it is how
> >it is done by Wolfgang in this commit.
> >
> >http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=eca3aeb352c964bdb28b8e191d6326370245e03f
> >
> >Then yes, adding one line is enough.
> I would like to revive this thread regarding SPDX license identifiers in the
> Linux kernel. And check how to best start / proceed with the integration
> now.
Why do you want to do this?
> Greg, if you are open to patches adding this one-line SPDX license tag to
> the source code, how should I begin with such a task in your opinion? Should
> I add those tags for just one driver directory (e.g. drivers/base/*) first?
> And send those patches to the list(s) for review. Or do you have other
> suggestions on how to start with this task?
Is one tag per directory sufficient? Is one tag per file sufficient?
How about one tag per package? If package, then isn't a single tag for
the whole kernel source tree sufficient, as we all know the overall
license for the kernel source tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-02 16:06 UTC|newest]
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2014-02-19 9:40 [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
[not found] ` <774153d4-d33f-4bb4-813b-582762bc3af9-8XeO8fnFoNFnw48GICbVzrjjLBE8jN/0@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-20 18:23 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-20 18:23 ` Felipe Balbi
[not found] ` <20140220182257.GF23217-HgARHv6XitL9zxVx7UNMDg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 6:38 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 6:38 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20140221160442.GA17506-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 16:04 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:04 ` Michal Simek
[not found] ` <5307790A.4050806-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 16:12 ` SPDX-License-Identifier (was: Re: [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support) Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:12 ` Felipe Balbi
[not found] ` <20140221161246.GM31902-HgARHv6XitL9zxVx7UNMDg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 16:18 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:18 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
[not found] ` <53077C5F.9000407-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 16:20 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:20 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:56 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 17:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
[not found] ` <53078C30.7060703-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 17:57 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 17:57 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 19:01 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 10:12 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
[not found] ` <530B1B25.5090601-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-24 13:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 13:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 14:03 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
[not found] ` <530B512D.8090308-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-24 14:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-24 14:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-25 12:10 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-25 12:25 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-02 15:43 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-02 15:43 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
[not found] ` <54CF9B12.2070807-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-02 16:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-02-02 16:06 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20150202160622.GA9852-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-04 16:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-04 16:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
[not found] ` <54D24BA4.3070509-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-05 4:21 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-05 4:21 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-05 6:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-05 6:41 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-25 21:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-25 22:00 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2015-02-25 22:00 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2015-02-26 21:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-26 10:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-26 10:26 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-26 13:39 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-26 21:53 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-05 11:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-05 11:49 ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-21 16:23 ` [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-03-26 10:07 ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-03-26 10:07 ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-04-15 17:18 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-04-15 17:18 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-04-15 17:55 ` Alan Stern
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1404151345580.1310-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-16 4:39 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-04-16 4:39 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 11:27 ` Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-21 15:39 ` Felipe Balbi
[not found] ` <20140221153905.GE31902-HgARHv6XitL9zxVx7UNMDg@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-10 13:36 ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-03-10 13:36 ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-03-10 18:44 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-10 18:44 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 12:04 ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 13:41 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 13:57 ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 14:06 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 15:42 ` Felipe Balbi
[not found] ` <20140221154244.GG31902-HgARHv6XitL9zxVx7UNMDg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 15:51 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 15:51 ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:00 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:00 ` Felipe Balbi
[not found] ` <530775EB.6030004-pSz03upnqPeHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 16:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-21 16:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <20140221120454.GD8783-NuALmloUBlrZROr8t4l/smS4ubULX0JqMm0uRHvK7Nw@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-21 15:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 15:41 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:13 ` Mark Rutland
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