From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751623AbdKYV5k (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:57:40 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0103.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.103]:57978 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751097AbdKYV5i (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:57:38 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:960:967:973:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2538:2539:2559:2562:2731:2828:2892:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:4250:4321:5007:6117:6691:7901:8531:9010:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12679:12740:12760:12895:13069:13160:13229:13255:13311:13357:13439:14096:14097:14181:14659:14721:14764:14777:21080:21324:21433:21627:30026:30054:30055:30064:30067:30075:30091,0,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: plate06_807a4a694420 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2546 Message-ID: <1511647053.2503.22.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: WTF? Re: [PATCH] License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license From: Joe Perches To: Pavel Machek , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linus Torvalds Cc: Philippe Ombredanne , Christoph Hellwig , "Theodore Ts'o" , Alan Cox , "Darrick J. Wong" , Eric Sandeen , xfs , LKML , Kate Stewart Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:57:33 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20171125191223.GC5114@amd> References: <20171107072040.GB4586@infradead.org> <20171107073940.GB4654@kroah.com> <20171107172042.GB26910@magnolia> <20171107182903.GA4588@kroah.com> <20171107184658.56b87d41@alans-desktop> <20171107191526.x3rzfcnnlmaz264d@thunk.org> <20171107192846.GA24617@infradead.org> <20171122170713.GD12684@amd> <20171122175346.GB6528@kroah.com> <20171125191223.GC5114@amd> 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 On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 20:12 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > [Linus Torvalds...] > > Having it be the first line of the file is good, it's obvious, and > > stands out, which is the point, you want it to, it's a license :) > > What is good about that? License is about the least interesting thing > about the file. Point of SPDX conversion (see the mail I was replying > to?) was to make license information _less_ intrusive, not more. Tools > can find SPDX anywhere in the file for the people that really care. > > That's how it works in U-Boot, which people are using as example of > reasonable SPDX conversion: > > /* > * Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved. > * Copyright (c) 2010-2011 NVIDIA Corporation > * NVIDIA Corporation > * > * SPDX-License-ers/ d > .c: GPL-2.0+ > */ fwiw: I agree with Pavel. My preferred header listing order: // Simple description/purpose // Copyright/Author // License