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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
	monstr@monstr.eu, balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:53:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226215318.GB10204@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150226102650.7407cf02@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Thu 2015-02-26 10:26:50, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > So that GPL header at begining of each file becomes one line... and so
> > that if it is BSD/GPL dual licensed is plain to see, and I don't have
> > to read the notices saying "oh this is gpl.. but if you want to,
> > delete gpl above and use license below".
> 
> That won't happen though. You'd require every single corporate legal
> department of every large company that touched the file to agree that the
> SPDX was equivalent to the content, and some of them probably won't.
> Lawyers don't seem to believe in #include <legalese.h>

Umm. I'd still like to see SPDX where corporate lawyers allow that,
and for new files.
									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-19  9:40 [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-20 18:23 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21  6:38   ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:04     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 16:04       ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:12         ` SPDX-License-Identifier (was: Re: [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support) Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:18           ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:20             ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:56               ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 17:26                 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 17:57                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 19:01                     ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 10:12                       ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-24 13:41                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 14:03                           ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-24 14:26                             ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-25 12:10                               ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-25 12:25                                 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-02 15:43             ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-02 16:06               ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-04 16:41                 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-05  4:21                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-05  6:41                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-25 21:49                     ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-25 22:00                       ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2015-02-26 21:49                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-26 10:26                       ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-26 13:39                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-26 21:53                         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-02-05 11:49                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-21 16:23         ` [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 11:27   ` Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-21 15:39     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-10 13:36       ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-03-10 18:44         ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 12:04   ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 13:41     ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 13:57       ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 14:06         ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 15:42       ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 15:51         ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:00           ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:15           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-21 15:41     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:13       ` Mark Rutland
2014-03-26 10:07   ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-04-15 17:18     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-04-15 17:55       ` Alan Stern
2014-04-16  4:39         ` Felipe Balbi

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