From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, T_DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33ACC28CC0 for ; Wed, 29 May 2019 21:30:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3692421B for ; Wed, 29 May 2019 21:30:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1559165445; bh=OUmqWX6IA+xmzOtCEpSEM2lmJ4fLtmCqZVaJv+PQSWo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=QP1fUl1VaHEfycb/mNDopGG4TlAJ5KSqv9qsYGsxpucBY7iER8wYVtBSVwnqCa+Xn a5Es6qtXS/Tom0YctUfM7zY9PowpJA5PZcgGbhqC/r/73ISKqRvg7Wnw9zDY0iUfD2 /nWLhrWHgu2jHUazj6JQgpQ5kGgGmqa1hL44Lq3w= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726240AbfE2Vap (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2019 17:30:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:53738 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726189AbfE2Vap (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2019 17:30:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [207.225.69.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 88F252421A; Wed, 29 May 2019 21:30:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1559165444; bh=OUmqWX6IA+xmzOtCEpSEM2lmJ4fLtmCqZVaJv+PQSWo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=zV+cb/IxXjREcjLjQhV/TljPE696Ph6dyIm+euT30NqYA3tp9vA6u4oeKg66sQp4p DQ64eA0EVhDKQC4blfyCt6gGl7md9+Qh5qP0UwVgnmyM0QCCwWZKOMrpBoS/kWK+xp ojK0pbu0zBiPX4c5wuTz+ontqA5Ueom0vsyym+VY= Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 14:30:44 -0700 From: Greg KH To: John Sullivan Cc: J Lovejoy , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Meta-question on GPL compliance of this activity Message-ID: <20190529213044.GA3352@kroah.com> References: <20190521210833.veltn74dcgic5zmw@ebb.org> <0995848C-11BE-47B1-86F9-F56D43541246@jilayne.com> <871s0qyz3z.fsf@wjsullivan.net> <0D762992-918F-4901-8355-F258DAAB88EA@jilayne.com> <8736kx6ksv.fsf@wjsullivan.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8736kx6ksv.fsf@wjsullivan.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.0 (2019-05-25) Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 04:57:20PM -0400, John Sullivan wrote: > Project copyrightholders can as always make their own decisions about > questions like this. What Linux does will be looked to by others as a > practice to model, so I'm interested to participate in the conversation > here for that reason (I see there are also a few cases of actual FSF > copyrighted materials up for consideration, so will try to watch for > those but would also appreciate a ping if anyone can spare one as they > come up). To help address any issues that you might have with your own files being modified, could you please just submit a patch to add the proper SPDX header and place whatever text you feel is "correct" in them? That way you know your files are fine. I'll gladly review and submit any patches you create for this, it would be most helpful. Same offer to any other copyright holder (Richard, want to do this for all Red Hat owned files?) Note, other copyright holders have already done this, you will note that there are many subsystems/areas of the kernel that are already cleaned up because of this. thanks, greg k-h