From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:12:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202161246.GA3188@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb680231-b9ca-ee46-f088-086da0bed2c1@huawei.com>
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:49:20PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> On 02/02/18 17:40, Rob Herring wrote:
> > Add SPDX license tag check based on the rules defined in
>
> Shouldn't it also check that the license is compatible?
Baby steps please :)
> [...]
>
> > + } elsif ($realfile =~ /\.rst$/) {
> > + $comment = '..';
>
> What is the correct/acceptable license for documentation?
> Creative Commons? AFAIK GPL is for source code.
>
> Googling didn't bring the wished-for enlightenment.
It depends on what you want to allow the documentation to be used for.
It's not a simple answer :(
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-02 15:40 [PATCH v6] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check Rob Herring
2018-02-02 15:49 ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-02 16:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-02-02 16:17 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-02-02 18:27 ` Rob Herring
2018-02-02 19:06 ` Joe Perches
2018-02-02 20:18 ` Kate Stewart
2018-02-02 20:26 ` Kate Stewart
2018-02-02 20:55 ` Joe Perches
2018-02-08 14:41 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-02-02 20:57 ` Rob Herring
2018-02-02 21:10 ` Joe Perches
2018-02-03 13:41 ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-08 14:44 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-02-08 14:35 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-02-08 17:24 ` Joe Perches
2018-02-08 18:09 ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-02-02 21:18 ` Joe Perches
2018-02-09 0:35 ` Joe Perches
2018-02-09 5:58 ` Philippe Ombredanne
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