Re: [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: tegra: Add support for Tegra238 soundcard

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-13T17:14:30Z

On 03/03/2026 17:38, Jon Hunter wrote:
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> On 03/03/2026 14:54, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
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> ...
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>>> Where exactly do you document it for reference?
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>> paste SPDX-FileCopyrightText in lore
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> Got it!
>
>>> I know that Rob previously indicated that the 'Copyright' string in the
>>> above was redundant, but we have been told to keep this by the people at
>>> NVIDIA that specify how we should be formatting such tags when adding
>>> NVIDIA copyrights.
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>> For the kernel, for most of us, most likely legally it is redundant and
>> Rob was right, but some companies insist on it and I don't want to
>> discuss with them, because they never use actual arguments except "my
>> legal told me I must do", so you can have it. That's not a problem.
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> Before I had requested we change this everywhere but there was concern
> that we would have slightly different variants in different places. What
> I could ask if for the kernel we can just use ...
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> SPDX-FileCopyrightText: <date> NVIDIA CORPORATION. All rights reserved.
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> Although I see some instances in the kernel with 'NVIDIA CORPORATION &
> AFFILIATES' and so they may want ...
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> SPDX-FileCopyrightText: <date> NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All
> rights reserved.
>
> Anyway, would the above be acceptable?

I suggest to drop the SPDX and use standard Copyright. I do not have
preference what goes after the copyright, especially that some companies
have odd choices and - as Greg KH once explained to me - it does not
matter for us.

Best regards,
Krzysztof