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=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 2D40CC28CC0 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 03:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE16270DE for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2019 03:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726697AbfFADWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 May 2019 23:22:55 -0400 Received: from mail.fsf.org ([209.51.188.13]:45788 "EHLO mail.fsf.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726428AbfFADWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 May 2019 23:22:55 -0400 Received: from 99-173-130-66.lightspeed.rlghnc.sbcglobal.net ([99.173.130.66]:49856 helo=localhost) by mail.fsf.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1hWubb-0005uU-8U; Fri, 31 May 2019 23:22:51 -0400 Received: from johnsu01 by localhost with local (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1hWubU-0003PV-9C; Fri, 31 May 2019 23:22:44 -0400 From: John Sullivan To: Greg KH Cc: J Lovejoy , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Meta-question on GPL compliance of this activity 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> <20190529213044.GA3352@kroah.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 23:22:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20190529213044.GA3352@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Wed, 29 May 2019 14:30:44 -0700") Message-ID: <87pnnydm63.fsf@wjsullivan.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by mail.fsf.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: > 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?) > Yes, that is reasonable and I'll arrange for that. I'd like to avoid the race condition though, so also asking for any patches that may get circulated here to be flagged and held. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B https://status.fsf.org/johns | https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at .