From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A37FC46464 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20DD722402 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:58:01 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 20DD722402 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727944AbeHJP1m (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:27:42 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:59368 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726379AbeHJP1m (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:27:42 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 90F0A9B0; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 06:57:52 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: Daniel Borkmann , Alexei Starovoitov , Alexei Starovoitov , "David S. Miller" , Kees Cook , Andy Lutomirski , Will Drewry , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST Message-ID: <20180810065752.2ab5473d@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20180810014636.GJ32374@eros> References: <20180809052328.27942-1-me@tobin.cc> <20180809060734.rtqqu4sexbwzuqmm@ast-mbp> <20180809072753.GF32374@eros> <80bdc251-9f57-602f-6536-b34651684bb7@iogearbox.net> <20180810014636.GJ32374@eros> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:46:36 +1000 "Tobin C. Harding" wrote: > Thanks for clarifying. My understanding is now; this is a case where > checkpatch is too verbose and we do not actually need to add a specific > license identifier to the documentation files (new or otherwise). They > get an implicit GPLv2. The objective actually is to have SPDX tags in all files in the kernel. That includes documentation, even though people, as always, care less about the docs than they do the code. As I understood it, the complaint with the tags you put in wasn't their existence, it was your putting GPLv2+ rather than straight GPLv2. In the absence of information to the contrary, you really have to assume the latter, since that's the overall license for the kernel. Thanks, jon