From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758223AbdKGRI1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:08:27 -0500 Received: from www.llwyncelyn.cymru ([82.70.14.225]:46004 "EHLO fuzix.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025AbdKGRIX (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:08:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 17:07:44 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Darrick J. Wong" , Eric Sandeen , xfs , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: WTF? Re: [PATCH] License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license Message-ID: <20171107170744.79571752@alans-desktop> In-Reply-To: <20171107073940.GB4654@kroah.com> References: <20171107020607.GA26910@magnolia> <20171107072040.GB4586@infradead.org> <20171107073940.GB4654@kroah.com> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:39:40 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:20:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > NAK, for both the libxfs patch and the kernel one. > > What libxfs patch? And what "kernel one" are you referring to here? > > > I wrote the file and it has no copyright header because it conatians > > trivial, non-copyrightable code. > > What file exactly? > > And from what I know, there is nothing that is "non-copyrightable". You'd be wrong on that. Lots of things are not copyrightable. Alan