Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753628AbbBZK1Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2015 05:27:16 -0500 Received: from 251.110.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.110.251]:57264 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752706AbbBZK1O (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2015 05:27:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:26:50 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Pavel Machek Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stefan Roese , monstr@monstr.eu, balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier Message-ID: <20150226102650.7407cf02@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150225214950.GB29527@amd> References: <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> <20150202160622.GA9852@kroah.com> <54D24BA4.3070509@denx.de> <20150205064130.GB22075@kroah.com> <20150225214950.GB29527@amd> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 16 > So that GPL header at begining of each file becomes one line... and so > that if it is BSD/GPL dual licensed is plain to see, and I don't have > to read the notices saying "oh this is gpl.. but if you want to, > delete gpl above and use license below". That won't happen though. You'd require every single corporate legal department of every large company that touched the file to agree that the SPDX was equivalent to the content, and some of them probably won't. Lawyers don't seem to believe in #include Alan -- 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/