Re: [PATCH] media: v4l: xilinx: Use SPDX-License-Identifier

Joe Perches
2017-12-14T18:32:24Z

On Thu, 2017-12-14 at 20:28 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Mauro,
>
> On Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:05:27 EET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > Em Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:05:37 +0530 Dhaval Shah escreveu:
> > > SPDX-License-Identifier is used for the Xilinx Video IP and
> > > related drivers.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dhaval Shah <dhaval23031987@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi Dhaval,
> >
> > You're not listed as one of the Xilinx driver maintainers. I'm afraid that,
> > without their explicit acks, sent to the ML, I can't accept a patch
> > touching at the driver's license tags.
>
> The patch doesn't change the license, I don't see why it would cause any
> issue. Greg isn't listed as the maintainer or copyright holder of any of the
> 10k+ files to which he added an SPDX license header in the last kernel
> release.

Adding a comment line that describes an implicit or
explicit license is different than removing the license
text itself.