Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754495AbbBBQGZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2015 11:06:25 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57281 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753964AbbBBQGX (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2015 11:06:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 08:06:22 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Stefan Roese Cc: monstr@monstr.eu, balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier Message-ID: <20150202160622.GA9852@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> <54CF9B12.2070807@denx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54CF9B12.2070807@denx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2240 Lines: 53 On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > On 21.02.2014 17:18, 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. > I would like to revive this thread regarding SPDX license identifiers in the > Linux kernel. And check how to best start / proceed with the integration > now. Why do you want to do this? > Greg, if you are open to patches adding this one-line SPDX license tag to > the source code, how should I begin with such a task in your opinion? Should > I add those tags for just one driver directory (e.g. drivers/base/*) first? > And send those patches to the list(s) for review. Or do you have other > suggestions on how to start with this task? Is one tag per directory sufficient? Is one tag per file sufficient? How about one tag per package? If package, then isn't a single tag for the whole kernel source tree sufficient, as we all know the overall license for the kernel source tree. thanks, 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/