From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:06:22 -0800 Message-ID: <20150202160622.GA9852@kroah.com> References: <774153d4-d33f-4bb4-813b-582762bc3af9@TX2EHSMHS021.ehs.local> <20140220182257.GF23217@saruman.home> <5306F458.9010706@monstr.eu> <20140221160442.GA17506@kroah.com> <5307790A.4050806@monstr.eu> <20140221161246.GM31902@saruman.home> <53077C5F.9000407@monstr.eu> <54CF9B12.2070807@denx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54CF9B12.2070807-ynQEQJNshbs@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Stefan Roese 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 List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html