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=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 2FEE3C43331 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01AA8208FE for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585658883; bh=Ep9oXY2shrD4wLEpeLwi0HCXZDPZJuk1J/OQxP6c2pA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=b32nSjsiwtWpnKrKY2Q5EE2tkofLiAgdMdiRLT4KXiZXWFYzbz8Mu2ThXv88XLRvZ sVFkmAN3vGcFagV9Wh4XqChYGEqOkanZ7WdONXaAMUsNgTqHd8ee95RW7lpraxgNRT oXrlJG9d8FwmBFKWQOMsG0VsjhauYk39HbE1PHyg= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730671AbgCaMsC (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:48:02 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:35966 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730646AbgCaMsC (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:48:02 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 433C820848; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585658881; bh=Ep9oXY2shrD4wLEpeLwi0HCXZDPZJuk1J/OQxP6c2pA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=mWKbsrXpqnSp87cvQuI8DI3ZfFygOmLEMtJsjhjgWH5cdrUlbArN9yfxVAkLYbm/4 VOObvQR+WuYmB1vqa5WqFxbD+e+24rnj6CyEPXHPco/QPuFuVsVSakvAGRO/HnGUXY ZGPNTbsfII+ylcg6St6rIyiY3ZPyfiZvBR+mM/z8= Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:47:56 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Philipp Zabel , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Chen-Yu Tsai , Maxime Ripard , linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, Helen Koike , Sakari Ailus , Ezequiel Garcia , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 17/33] media: add SPDX headers on Kconfig and Makefile files Message-ID: <20200331124756.GA1634223@kroah.com> References: <981eea64742859c63d8ab88c24b1b3380ee32dd2.1585651678.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> <20200331120608.GB4767@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> <20200331122209.GA1627483@kroah.com> <20200331123914.GC4767@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200331123914.GC4767@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:39:14PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 02:22:09PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:06:08PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 01:11:53PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > Most of media Kconfig/Makefile files already has SPDX, > > > > but there are a few ones still missing. Add it to them. > > > > > > I think it's a good idea to state the license of each source file, the > > > patch looks fine to me. I've however been thinking about licenses for > > > build system files recently, and I'll hijack this thread a bit to ask a > > > question :-) > > > > > > For a project like the Linux kernel, and especially for subsystems that > > > are covered by a single license, the choice is easy, we can apply the > > > same license to the build files. However, for a project that contains > > > components covered by different licenses (such as, for instance, an LGPL > > > library, a GPL application and a BSD plugin), how should the license > > > covering the build system files be selected ? I searched a bit for > > > guidance on this topic, and couldn't find much. > > > > By "default" if there is no license on a file in the kernel tree, it > > falls under the GPLv2 license and we should explicity state it, like > > this patch does. > > > > So this is fine, but if you want to license the build files some other > > way, that's good too, but do so when you add them to the tree, not at > > some later time when it could cause confusion :) > > Thanks for your answer. I was hijacking the thread a little bit, the > question wasn't related to the kernel, but in this case to libcamera. > We've been wondering how to pick licenses for build files there, and I > thought fellow kernel developers may have valuable input on this topic. I would make the files the same license as your project overall is to make things simpler for everyone involved :) thanks, greg k-h 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=-0.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no 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 15572C43331 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org (smtp1.osuosl.org [140.211.166.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0B3620848 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="mWKbsrXp" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E0B3620848 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D19487A74; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9V7RQ+8xdRCR; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ash.osuosl.org (ash.osuosl.org [140.211.166.34]) by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64FD879AE; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from silver.osuosl.org (smtp3.osuosl.org [140.211.166.136]) by ash.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123071BF834 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by silver.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03144204FA for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at osuosl.org Received: from silver.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pdjx19UjhDUl for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by silver.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 167D520031 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 433C820848; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585658881; bh=Ep9oXY2shrD4wLEpeLwi0HCXZDPZJuk1J/OQxP6c2pA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=mWKbsrXpqnSp87cvQuI8DI3ZfFygOmLEMtJsjhjgWH5cdrUlbArN9yfxVAkLYbm/4 VOObvQR+WuYmB1vqa5WqFxbD+e+24rnj6CyEPXHPco/QPuFuVsVSakvAGRO/HnGUXY ZGPNTbsfII+ylcg6St6rIyiY3ZPyfiZvBR+mM/z8= Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:47:56 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Laurent Pinchart Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 17/33] media: add SPDX headers on Kconfig and Makefile files Message-ID: <20200331124756.GA1634223@kroah.com> References: <981eea64742859c63d8ab88c24b1b3380ee32dd2.1585651678.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> <20200331120608.GB4767@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> <20200331122209.GA1627483@kroah.com> <20200331123914.GC4767@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200331123914.GC4767@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> X-BeenThere: driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux Driver Project Developer List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Sakari Ailus , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Helen Koike , Maxime Ripard , linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, Chen-Yu Tsai , Philipp Zabel , Ezequiel Garcia , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Linux Media Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:39:14PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 02:22:09PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:06:08PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 01:11:53PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > Most of media Kconfig/Makefile files already has SPDX, > > > > but there are a few ones still missing. Add it to them. > > > > > > I think it's a good idea to state the license of each source file, the > > > patch looks fine to me. I've however been thinking about licenses for > > > build system files recently, and I'll hijack this thread a bit to ask a > > > question :-) > > > > > > For a project like the Linux kernel, and especially for subsystems that > > > are covered by a single license, the choice is easy, we can apply the > > > same license to the build files. However, for a project that contains > > > components covered by different licenses (such as, for instance, an LGPL > > > library, a GPL application and a BSD plugin), how should the license > > > covering the build system files be selected ? I searched a bit for > > > guidance on this topic, and couldn't find much. > > > > By "default" if there is no license on a file in the kernel tree, it > > falls under the GPLv2 license and we should explicity state it, like > > this patch does. > > > > So this is fine, but if you want to license the build files some other > > way, that's good too, but do so when you add them to the tree, not at > > some later time when it could cause confusion :) > > Thanks for your answer. I was hijacking the thread a little bit, the > question wasn't related to the kernel, but in this case to libcamera. > We've been wondering how to pick licenses for build files there, and I > thought fellow kernel developers may have valuable input on this topic. I would make the files the same license as your project overall is to make things simpler for everyone involved :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel 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=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no 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 4157AC43331 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C484212CC for ; 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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:39:14PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 02:22:09PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 03:06:08PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 01:11:53PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > Most of media Kconfig/Makefile files already has SPDX, > > > > but there are a few ones still missing. Add it to them. > > > > > > I think it's a good idea to state the license of each source file, the > > > patch looks fine to me. I've however been thinking about licenses for > > > build system files recently, and I'll hijack this thread a bit to ask a > > > question :-) > > > > > > For a project like the Linux kernel, and especially for subsystems that > > > are covered by a single license, the choice is easy, we can apply the > > > same license to the build files. However, for a project that contains > > > components covered by different licenses (such as, for instance, an LGPL > > > library, a GPL application and a BSD plugin), how should the license > > > covering the build system files be selected ? I searched a bit for > > > guidance on this topic, and couldn't find much. > > > > By "default" if there is no license on a file in the kernel tree, it > > falls under the GPLv2 license and we should explicity state it, like > > this patch does. > > > > So this is fine, but if you want to license the build files some other > > way, that's good too, but do so when you add them to the tree, not at > > some later time when it could cause confusion :) > > Thanks for your answer. I was hijacking the thread a little bit, the > question wasn't related to the kernel, but in this case to libcamera. > We've been wondering how to pick licenses for build files there, and I > thought fellow kernel developers may have valuable input on this topic. I would make the files the same license as your project overall is to make things simpler for everyone involved :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel