Re: [PATCH 5/5] driver core: Remove redundant license text

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 02:47:40PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Was not what?  Discussed?  Yes it was.  I think the lwn.net article even
> says so.

There is absolutely no public track record of any discussion.  And if
there was any it seems like a large number of the biggest contributors
and copyright holders in the kernel were excluded.

So please state what was decided, where it was deciced, who decided it
and why as a start.

This whole debacle is not how we normally communicate big changes in
the kernel community, and that is double worrisome because it is
an important area with legal implications.

> "which" tag is just SPDX, that's easy.  As for "when and how", I don't
> understand the question.

And where is our defintion of SPDX in our kernel tree?  As said in
another thread, yes I can google it.  But that doesn't provide a stable
defintion, nevermind that we do not even have a pointer to it from
anywhere in the tree.

If your use of SPDX is apparently fine because people must know I'll
just invent my own tags and mandate them [1].


[1] not that I have anything about the SPDX tags in particular, it's
just the way you rush them in without even defining them for us.