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_HELO_NONE,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 5EFA9C282CE for ; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3566620863 for ; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729159AbfEVNmz (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2019 09:42:55 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:36717 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728827AbfEVNmy (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2019 09:42:54 -0400 Received: from [5.158.153.52] (helo=nanos.tec.linutronix.de) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hTRW8-00054L-DE; Wed, 22 May 2019 15:42:52 +0200 Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 15:42:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Richard Fontana cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 25/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 100 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20190520075121.768803433@linutronix.de> <20190520075212.908050599@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 22 May 2019, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:05 AM Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > neither [alan] [cox] [nor] [cymrunet] > > [ltd] admit liability nor provide warranty for any of this software > > this material is provided as is and at no charge > > Since some of these disclaimer statements are getting scrutinized, > this one is also notable though it is more general than the other ones > that have been called out. I think we should decide what to do about > variously-worded warranty/liability disclaimer statements in general > and consider this variety along with others. I assume SPDX previously > never considered the problem of how to deal with license notices with > various nonstandard disclaimer statements other than implicitly > treating the ones in the GNU notice as conveying nothing more than > what's already in the GPL/LGPL license texts. > > For the time being I am trying to call attention to anything that > seems even slightly interestingly different from what's in the GNU > notice ("WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE"). Right. The patcher keeps them around: - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version - * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. - * * Neither Alan Cox nor CymruNet Ltd. admit liability nor provide * warranty for any of this software. This material is provided * "AS-IS" and at no charge. But yes, the question is whether this is yet another license variant^Wabomination. Assumed that combining these magic disclaimers with the GPL text forms a unique license then we probably (did not validate) double the number of licenses in the kernel. We already have 80+ without those. Thanks, tglx