Re: [PATCH 0/2] LICENSES: add and use copyleft-next-0.3.1

Luis Chamberlain
2021-07-08T19:00:31Z

On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 06:14:46AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 11:43:08AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > This adds the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag and replaces existing
> > boilerplate with the tag.
>
> Why do we need a random weirdo license in the kernel tree?

Its already present in the kernel. This patch just adds the respective
SPDX license tag so we can remove the boiler plate.

> Is there
> any benefit? If so it needs to be clearly spelled out.

The benefits are described in the first patch, I hope that's
clear enough. Let me know if its not!

Luis