Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:53:18 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
        monstr@monstr.eu, balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier
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On Thu 2015-02-26 10:26:50, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > 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 <legalese.h>

Umm. I'd still like to see SPDX where corporate lawyers allow that,
and for new files.
									Pavel
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