From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752102AbdLJPIw (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:08:52 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50292 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751633AbdLJPIu (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:08:50 -0500 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org BABC020C01 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=jic23@kernel.org Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 15:08:45 +0000 From: Jonathan Cameron To: harinath Nampally Cc: Philippe Ombredanne , Martin Kepplinger , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , lars@metafoo.de, knaack.h@gmx.de, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: mma8452: replace license description with SPDX specifier Message-ID: <20171210150845.51e14aad@archlinux> In-Reply-To: References: <20171118091011.9061-1-martink@posteo.de> <20171118155318.6a1f3b3f@archlinux> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 23:23:57 -0500 harinath Nampally wrote: > > This replaces the custom license information text with the appropriate > > SPDX identifier. While the information here stays the same, it is easier > > to read. > > Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger > > Acked-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler > Acked-by: Harinath Nampally Applied. I still not totally sure that the intent of introducing SPDX specifiers was to replace rather than supplement the license text. It's been pointed out for instance that some of the BSD licenses have explicit names in the text relevant to a particular file. For GPL v2 that isn't the case though so I suppose this one does no harm. Jonathan > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Philippe Ombredanne > wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:10:11 +0100 > >> Martin Kepplinger wrote: > >> > >>> This replaces the custom license information text with the appropriate > >>> SPDX identifier. While the information here stays the same, it is easier > >>> to read. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger > >>> Acked-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler > >> > >> I'm not 100% sure the intent of the SPDX work is to remove > >> existing licence text. So far the big sets have only been > >> adding tags to files missing their licenses entirely... > >> > >> Anyone found any specific guidance on this? > > > > Jonathan: > > you might want to check the doc patches from tglx [1] as well as > > several related patches from greg k-h such as these [2] and his > > initial pull [3] > > > > To get a lot of details you can check all the recent SPDX-related posts too [4] > > > > [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151051532322831&w=2 > > [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151068111802610&w=2 > > [3] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150963579219623&w=2 > > [4] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=spdx&q=b > > -- > > Cordially > > Philippe Ombredanne