From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Max Mehl <max.mehl@fsfe.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Better statistics and exclude handling
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 20:52:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgjhpawr.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1652706350.kh41opdwg4.2220@fsfe.org>
On Mon, May 16 2022 at 15:14, Max Mehl wrote:
> Thank you for picking up the effort to add license (and perhaps also
> copyright) info to all files in the Kernel.
Adding copyright notices retroactively is not going to happen
ever. That's just impossible.
>> The exclude of files and directories is hardcoded in the script which makes
>> it hard to maintain and the information cannot be accessed by external tools.
>
> Unfortunately, excluding files (i.e. not adding machine-readable
> license/copyright information to it) would also block reaching full
> compliance with the REUSE best practices. Have you considered making
> them available under GPL-2.0-only or a license similar to public domain
> [^2]?
The LICENSE directory is already handled by spdxcheck as the license
information is read from there. And no, we cannot add a GPL-2.0-only
identifier to all of the files under the LICENSE directory for obvious
reasons.
license-rules.rst is not longer a problem as all incarnations have a
proper SPDX identifier today.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-16 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-16 10:27 [patch 0/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Better statistics and exclude handling Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 1/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Add percentage to statistics Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 2/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Add directory statistics Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 3/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Add [sub]directory statistics Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 4/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Add option to display files without SPDX Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 5/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Put excluded files and directories into a separate file Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 6/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude config directories Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 7/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude MAINTAINERS/CREDITS Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 14:22 ` Miguel Ojeda
2022-05-16 18:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-18 13:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-05-16 10:27 ` [patch 9/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude top-level README Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-16 13:14 ` [patch 0/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Better statistics and exclude handling Max Mehl
2022-05-16 18:52 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2022-05-16 18:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-17 8:25 ` Max Mehl
2022-05-17 21:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-05-23 16:11 ` J Lovejoy
2022-05-23 21:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
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