Re: SPDX tag and top of file comment cleanups for the loop driver

tytso
2022-05-03T21:36:13Z

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:13:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:06:28PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > Ted, does the SPDX tag match your original licensing decision back then,
> > > or do we need to correct it? Does the auto-converted tag on the loop.h
> > > SPDX header (GPL1.0 or later with syscall exception) make sense, or
> > > should that have been GPL2 only with syscall exception?
> >
> > I think you've removed the loop.h in the patch series, so it shouldn't
> > matter what the tag would be for loop.h, right? In any case, GPLv2
> > only was certainly the intent at the time.
>
> Well, there were two loop.h files - drivers/block/loop.h gets removed
> in this series, but include/uapi/linux/loop.h stays.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. Yes, GPLv2 with the syscall
extension is what would be appropriate for include/uapi/linux/loop.h.

- Ted