Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750996AbdLaNyu (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2017 08:54:50 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:43161 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762AbdLaNyt (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2017 08:54:49 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBosNbSS24N6kSSylPRBvZhcMX+pcS/Bn5BUMDgdLL6PXPx1emLTRLBE4q/6bo/E9vQ1AXghNpSjeAo5o1qdeM5c= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1514726063.1668.7.camel@flygoat.com> References: <20171226132339.7356-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> <20171230182830.6496-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> <20171230182830.6496-2-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> <1514726063.1668.7.camel@flygoat.com> From: Philippe Ombredanne Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 14:54:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] MIPS: Loongson64: cleanup all cs5536 files to use SPDX Identifier To: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Ralf Baechle , Linux MIPS , LKML , Huacai Chen Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.home.local id vBVDstRt001211 Content-Length: 1141 Lines: 29 On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > On 2017-12-31 Sun 12:17 +0100，Philippe Ombredanne wrote： >> Did you CC the original authors? You would need their signoff or at >> least an ack IMHO > > Yeah, I CC Huacai Chen in v1 as the Lemote staff who in charge of > Loongson's mainline kernel. Can he sign-off for all the original > authors who were from ICT and Lemote? > As far as I know, some authors are no longer working in Lemote. And I > can't see their new email addresses so it may hard to get their ack or > sign-off. > Thanks for your adivce. > > -- > Best Regards > Jiaxun Yang It would best if you can get all acks, at least one authoritative from each org involved or from each individual involved if not part of an org. I reckon it may be difficult. But then you can document with your patch set who you contacted, who you got ack from and who you did not. Then again you are not changing anything about the licensing: just replacing licensing by value (e.g. a full notice) by a license by reference (e.g. an SPDX tag that references the full text). -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne