From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 06:26:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1510410404.10883.8.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171111142241.GA10012@kroah.com>
On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 15:22 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 05:53:12AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been
> > > decided to make them the first line in files. As Linus put it:
> >
> > Yes, SPDX tags are used in about a quarter of the files
> > in the kernel.
> >
> > Again, where is this shown to be desired that this goes
> > into _every_ file?
>
> The documentation that states this should be published this weekend, or
> on Monday, depending on people's travel schedules, please give it a
> chance...
>
> thanks,
checkpatch should not take the lead in setting licensing policy.
So unless and until the documentation patch is accepted: nak.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-11 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-10 20:19 [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check Rob Herring
2017-11-11 13:53 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-11 14:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-11 14:26 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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