From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] scripts: forbid use of arbitrary SPDX tags besides license identifiers
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 17:17:04 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34a985bf-1105-40a2-9a4e-0367015adcb9@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241007154548.1144961-4-berrange@redhat.com>
On 7/10/24 12:45, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> While SPDX-License-Identifier is a well known SPDX tag, there are a
> great many more besides that[1]. This are around making machine readable
> metadata available to the 'reuse' tool and similar for things like
> author names, copyright owners, and much more. It is even possible to
> define source file line groups and apply different SPDX tags to just
> that region of code.
>
> At this time we're only interested in adopting SPDX for recording the
> licensing info, so detect & reject any other SPDX metadata. If we want
> to explicitly collect extra data in SPDX format, we can evaluate each
> case on its merits.
50 uses, a third of them are mine, 10 different contributors.
Can be cleaned.
>
> [1] https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.2.2/file-tags/
> https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.2.2/file-information/
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-07 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-07 15:45 [PATCH 0/3] scripts: mandate use of SPDX-License-Identifier tags in new files Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-10-07 15:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] scripts: mandate that new files have SPDX-License-Identifier Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-10-07 16:12 ` Brian Cain
2024-10-07 20:13 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-10-07 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] scripts: validate SPDX license choices Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-10-07 16:19 ` Brian Cain
2024-10-07 16:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-10-07 15:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] scripts: forbid use of arbitrary SPDX tags besides license identifiers Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-10-07 20:17 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2024-10-07 15:56 ` [PATCH 0/3] scripts: mandate use of SPDX-License-Identifier tags in new files Peter Maydell
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