Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756036AbaBURzy (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:55:54 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57293 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755934AbaBURzw (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:55:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:57:20 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Michal Simek 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 Message-ID: <20140221175720.GA21660@kroah.com> 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> <53078C30.7060703@monstr.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53078C30.7060703@monstr.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 06:26:08PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > 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 simple: > >>>> > >>>> $ git grep -e SPDX-License-Identifier > >>>> > >>>> will tell you filename and license. Or did I misunderstand your question ? > >>> > >>> 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=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=eca3aeb352c964bdb28b8e191d6326370245e03f > >>> > >>> 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 ? > > > > 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 that > > 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. Why? Are these licenses so unknown that no one knows what they are? And, as part of the kernel-as-a-whole-work, they all resolve to GPLv2 anyway, and we have that license in the source tree, so nothing else should be needed. greg k-h -- 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/