From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Kate Stewart <kate@linuxfoundation.org>,
Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@linaro.org>,
Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:54:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510516474.10883.59.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171112192142.525567667@linutronix.de>
On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 20:18 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses
> should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well
> as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to
> refer to (LICENSES/).
>
> Thanks to Kate, Philippe and Greg for review and editing!
p[
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/license-rules.rst
[]
> +The common way of expressing the license of a source file is to add the
> +matching boiler plate text into the top comment of the file. Due to
> +formatting, typos etc. These "boiler plates" are hard to validate for
> +tools, which are used in the context of license compliance.
There is bad sentence construction here and it is a
little difficult to parse what is intended.
"These" should not be capitalized.
This SPDX info should also be place in the Documentation/process
content somewhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-12 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 19:18 [patch 0/7] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 1/7] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:54 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-11-12 19:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 20:07 ` Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-12 20:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-13 10:04 ` [1/7] " Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-13 12:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-13 12:40 ` Charlemagne Lasse
2017-11-13 13:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-16 15:07 ` [patch 1/7] " Jonathan Corbet
2017-11-16 15:15 ` Jonas Oberg
2017-11-16 18:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-17 7:37 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-17 8:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-17 10:53 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-17 12:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 2/7] LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-14 18:02 ` Rob Herring
2017-11-14 19:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-16 11:46 ` Jonas Oberg
2017-11-16 13:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 3/7] LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 4/7] LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 5/7] LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 6/7] LICENSES: Add the MIT license Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 19:18 ` [patch 7/7] LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-12 20:02 ` [patch 0/7] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files Joe Perches
2017-11-12 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-13 13:54 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2017-11-14 10:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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