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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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 15:22:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171111142241.GA10012@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510408392.10883.5.camel@perches.com>

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,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-11 14:22 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 [this message]
2017-11-11 14:26     ` Joe Perches

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