From: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:55:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21c380cbf6a51b6823a1707b0d16b25e@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171114094946.owfohzm5iplttdw6@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Am 14.11.2017 10:49 schrieb Michal Hocko:
> On Tue 14-11-17 10:44:38, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
>> A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having
>> this
>> still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.
>>
>> Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.
>>
>> As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace
>> the
>> postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the mm
>> directory.
>
> Why to change this now? Isn't there a general plan to move to SPDX?
Shouldn't a move to SPDX only be additions to what we currently have?
That's
at least what the "reuse" project suggests, see
https://reuse.software/practices/
with "Don’t remove existing headers, but only add to them."
thanks
martin
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-14 9:44 [PATCH] mm: replace FSF address with web source in license notices Martin Kepplinger
2017-11-14 9:49 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-14 9:55 ` Martin Kepplinger [this message]
2017-11-14 10:02 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-14 10:21 ` Martin Kepplinger
2017-11-22 22:20 ` Pavel Machek
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