Re: [PATCH 2/2] smatch: fix typos

[Andrew Kreimer <algonell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 10:25:39PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Thanks, Andrew.
> 
> I've merged patch 1 but it's a tricky thing to merge patch 2.  Most of these
> files come from Sparse and not Smatch.  Smatch files basically start with
> smatch_, check_ or validation/sm_.  So these changes should be sent to
> linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org.  There are two problems with me merging this:
> 
> 1) The license for Sparse is MIT and the license for Smatch is GPLv2+.  Merging
>    spelling fixes doesn't really count in terms of copyrights, but I don't
>    want to deal with that.  I'd prefer if it we not mix code with different
>    licenses and the Sparse code was sent to the Sparse list.
> 
> 2) When I merge updated code from Sparse it causes conflicts because they will
>    have the wrong spellings and I'll have to fix it up by hand.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

Understood, thank you!