From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933013AbdKGSrd (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:47:33 -0500 Received: from www.llwyncelyn.cymru ([82.70.14.225]:46314 "EHLO fuzix.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932982AbdKGSrb (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:47:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 18:46:58 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" , Christoph Hellwig , 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: <20171107184658.56b87d41@alans-desktop> In-Reply-To: <20171107182903.GA4588@kroah.com> References: <20171107020607.GA26910@magnolia> <20171107072040.GB4586@infradead.org> <20171107073940.GB4654@kroah.com> <20171107172042.GB26910@magnolia> <20171107182903.GA4588@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 > Given that it had no license text on it at all, it "defaults" to GPLv2, > so the GPLv2 SPDX identifier was added to it. > > No copyright was changed, nothing at all happened except we explicitly > list the license of the file, instead of it being "implicit" before. Well if Christoph owns the copyright (if there is one) and he has stated he believes it is too trivial to copyright then it needs an SPDX tag that indicates the rightsholder has stated it's too trivial to copyright and (by estoppel) revoked any right they might have to pursue a claim. I'm sure there's a correct SPDX tag for that ;-) Alan