From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA571C433FE for ; Mon, 16 May 2022 18:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1345165AbiEPSw5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2022 14:52:57 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50206 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1345082AbiEPSwz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2022 14:52:55 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [IPv6:2a0a:51c0:0:12e:550::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 625F23EB83; Mon, 16 May 2022 11:52:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Gleixner DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1652727173; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=aD86N6duEnXjJa8sE+96XgfKrmYJDh6pUQ8+2kW0T4w=; b=Pm+mXx87j1ajufcmunnMTRWiGm075XOHoA4ZpZtnq6Jw7QvN3bI926/xg07KmtVe+E0/Cj RbV5zl4lPrFE6gAF1S0gJO6E0SZK1CE7VD7OGVBBRgbOHY8UozE/+mk7MfR0XfWT/DXZwZ dQbhymPUCOA4KL8iSBJPv+yZYw7qR8KJU0CaQnDFFh5Uzy1T1/j3i/NrFh80fUkSLYW4QR y0qsW+E6/uvmfbJJpVwjzrPPgKKlCiUO8pOI8Qox2qxY7KalojEJeDBcsEuB9RWY906lCR wyn9PAp07g/fdLI0mqQGJUcBdUck1VAHRLKapBRmbiVI6cHkRx0T65ZDcS8n5A== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1652727173; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=aD86N6duEnXjJa8sE+96XgfKrmYJDh6pUQ8+2kW0T4w=; b=PI7CIio8mQoCEEXktb2auMn/c1mnJfSiaku1HzQQtXRJebUdKqfF6RDmv1DjooeHW4viMW DQHwkVusAEwflmCw== To: Max Mehl , LKML Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Better statistics and exclude handling In-Reply-To: <1652706350.kh41opdwg4.2220@fsfe.org> References: <20220516101901.475557433@linutronix.de> <1652706350.kh41opdwg4.2220@fsfe.org> Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 20:52:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgjhpawr.ffs@tglx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 16 2022 at 15:14, Max Mehl wrote: > Thank you for picking up the effort to add license (and perhaps also > copyright) info to all files in the Kernel. Adding copyright notices retroactively is not going to happen ever. That's just impossible. >> The exclude of files and directories is hardcoded in the script which makes >> it hard to maintain and the information cannot be accessed by external tools. > > Unfortunately, excluding files (i.e. not adding machine-readable > license/copyright information to it) would also block reaching full > compliance with the REUSE best practices. Have you considered making > them available under GPL-2.0-only or a license similar to public domain > [^2]? The LICENSE directory is already handled by spdxcheck as the license information is read from there. And no, we cannot add a GPL-2.0-only identifier to all of the files under the LICENSE directory for obvious reasons. license-rules.rst is not longer a problem as all incarnations have a proper SPDX identifier today. Thanks, tglx