Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751413AbdL2QUH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2017 11:20:07 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0084.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.84]:38445 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750869AbdL2QUF (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2017 11:20:05 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:968:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:2828:2911:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:4250:4321:4425:5007:6117:6119:6120:6742:9389:10004:10128:10400:10471:10848:11232:11658:11914:12295:12740:12760:12895:13069:13161:13229:13255:13311:13357:13439:14096:14097:14181:14659:14721:21080:21088:21324:21433:21627:30054:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: show92_3a4bcf766d444 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2415 Message-ID: <1514564399.10256.7.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [patch V5 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses From: Joe Perches To: Philippe Ombredanne , Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , Russell King , Rob Herring , Jonas Oberg , xfs , Charlemagne Lasse , Carmen Bianca Bakker , "Darrick J. Wong" , Heiko Carstens Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:19:59 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <20171228152710.891701433@linutronix.de> <20171228153308.286787253@linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.26.1-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 20 On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 14:21 +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Thomas, > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Sorry for the spam. I somehow missed to refresh the patch before generating > > the mbox. Find below the correct version of that one which has ALL braces > > removed which we don't need. Has it been legally reviewed and accepted that removal of the BSD license text from individual source files is appropriate and meets the legal requirements of following the BSD license on a per-file basis? And if so, who did this review? Is there any license that does not allow removal of the license text and does not allow simple substitution of the SPDX license identifier in each individual file?