Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933157AbaBUR0T (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:26:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-f177.google.com ([209.85.215.177]:56296 "EHLO mail-ea0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932120AbaBUR0R (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:26:17 -0500 Message-ID: <53078C30.7060703@monstr.eu> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:26:08 +0100 From: Michal Simek Reply-To: monstr@monstr.eu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130330 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Felipe Balbi , Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier References: <774153d4-d33f-4bb4-813b-582762bc3af9@TX2EHSMHS021.ehs.local> <20140220182257.GF23217@saruman.home> <5306F458.9010706@monstr.eu> <20140221160442.GA17506@kroah.com> <5307790A.4050806@monstr.eu> <20140221161246.GM31902@saruman.home> <53077C5F.9000407@monstr.eu> <20140221162045.GN31902@saruman.home> <20140221165633.GA5465@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20140221165633.GA5465@kroah.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sVUURwXO8G1cO9er7ujFXgQ2S7tU3E3oM" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --sVUURwXO8G1cO9er7ujFXgQ2S7tU3E3oM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/21/2014 05:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20:45AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:18:39PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>> On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>> On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>>>> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier >>>>>>> which will be nice to start to use. >>>>>> >>>>>> I agree, feel free to start sending patches to use this type of >>>>>> identifier for drivers. >>>>> >>>>> But we probably need to add that Licenses to one location. >>>>> Documentation/Licenses? >>>> >>>> Just add to the drivers themselves, just like u-boot is doing. A sim= ple: >>>> >>>> $ git grep -e SPDX-License-Identifier >>>> >>>> will tell you filename and license. Or did I misunderstand your ques= tion ? >>> >>> But for doing this it is probably necessary to have location where >>> you will place that licenses and you will explain what it is how >>> it is done by Wolfgang in this commit. >>> >>> http://git.denx.de/?p=3Du-boot.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3Deca3aeb352c964b= db28b8e191d6326370245e03f >>> >>> Then yes, adding one line is enough. >> >> spdx.org has all licenses, why don't we just rely on that instead of >> adding every other license to the kernel source ? >=20 > Yes, all that will be acceptable is a one-line identifier in the file. > No need to have all the different licenses in the kernel source, that's= > crazy and not needed at all. > > I've told the SPDX people this in the past, and they keep promising tha= t > they will do the comment work, but it's been months and I have yet to > see a single patch... But shouldn't we at least write somewhere that it has connection to spdx.org where you can find out that licenses. I have no problem to use this one-line identifier at all. Thanks, Michal --=20 Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng), OpenPGP -> KeyID: FE3D1F91 w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel - Microblaze cpu - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM architecture Microblaze U-BOOT custodian and responsible for u-boot arm zynq platform --sVUURwXO8G1cO9er7ujFXgQ2S7tU3E3oM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMHjDAACgkQykllyylKDCFDRwCfbIM70ia5M3IKxYQQXI1haszJ rIYAmwQfK5LnKHsEwJNtd2cMdPtlSWk/ =+OFf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sVUURwXO8G1cO9er7ujFXgQ2S7tU3E3oM-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/