From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 407F238CFE7; Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774003071; cv=none; b=WyuGNsWTCPrzW0o2wXltSymXaLPyM2WKjNroAsQXuiijSiFRhgXXSVJB/amzY1Qt8PtOifIZxW/8+gj0gLaEl1+15D7h60E+lZm55sYiv87KaOtUp+PipX/2v61tn/Teei7Qqp34X0TkyC8hSRKbNHe7CJ2RX7XdrqeH+bM70mU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1774003071; c=relaxed/simple; bh=BOLF3RdKIDuQDZiESWLBoht92C4S3O4HWGTItBpQ4Mk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=b4IVo1nQCw/gR3EfVlLLkBLAC3Zzc4tpZcbb4spSbL8QH/j1No6xFCBzcgzt3iwFKTpmIwvoyQTDlR4EV/cXsxNRHW0+ypZcw7I4NSmICqyi7RK22kGTOkMV+UpEWwn3NbhSDoy0g0FbcbNRhSnMIeqPMPF7XYGu7YJc+KUEYyY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Wv566Dc2; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Wv566Dc2" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 296BFC4CEF7; Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:37:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1774003070; bh=BOLF3RdKIDuQDZiESWLBoht92C4S3O4HWGTItBpQ4Mk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Wv566Dc22PaN67r8dW17DCTi725N5ZIF1o226vORxMKSkNc4skdY6LgC87BN9dpg1 YfinT3ADOagoo7QSlt70Vj5Ua2/LcP4Q86FEsYjhzj3eFrEJzbpGm76fe6fmuUjliQ SgnkvmVq93q9VWuUI9VcHSOV8YdUREvpYPemczFg= Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:37:44 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Laurent Pinchart Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText Message-ID: <2026032032-wooing-washable-7f75@gregkh> References: <20260301143322.92894-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 01/03/2026 15:33, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more > > appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed. On the > > other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add > > checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and > > copyright. That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed. > > > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Cc: Joe Perches > > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski > > --- > > > > Other way would be to remove SPDX-FileCopyrightText from existing files > > and disallow this, but one way or another we should be explicit about > > it. Otherwise people will be sending more of these and each maintainer > > would need to make their own call. > > Hey folks, any further comments here? > > Is there a preference that this tag should be instead removed from the > kernel and checkpatch should not allow it? > > Honestly, I don't care about the way but I do care of having it > defined/codified. > > Best regards, > Krzysztof Looks sane to me, I'll take in the SPDX tree now, thanks. greg k-h