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 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3519C433F5 for ; Tue, 24 May 2022 20:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236950AbiEXU2u (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2022 16:28:50 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:47160 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232087AbiEXU2t (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2022 16:28:49 -0400 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:4601:e00::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D590162124 for ; Tue, 24 May 2022 13:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7C7AB81BB5 for ; Tue, 24 May 2022 20:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 041DEC34100; Tue, 24 May 2022 20:28:43 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1653424124; bh=JfFTGskkVvNGuBbWPehNVDCnZbtGHUk44ZqsQVAFRUg=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=W6n45us00RzTzNQg09HZu0L+O6+TEOuvXS36WzrgmLM30UC52zA0v+mMoE+z53+Y5 lnUaZkkGR5Vm7fP0QRCf46J+2xW6PxHp/2+ME3Yt5aJpIxzLtp7B4rnfAX1iFRCrNU oNe3wPchZ4avuHoIATfzKaGT1I+Fu4p2WP2EuiBw5MvOKWFNR9ppikKigsCr+ojbZI 69birau1mTWJZ1FBOHU3zRE+1lZEcaC0SMSjRM0KdIM62Sn/GNQ8uZssH95b+6vM39 EyrUAZNItzXfxZSj6XWQ3lhi90/pxhW1ntX/KlmV/l8CG4wKB4cGCi3i1tHmtWphsi lsmscoRK4wf/w== Message-ID: Subject: Re: relay: License cleanup From: Tom Zanussi To: Karim Yaghmour , Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 15:28:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <165322122630.3770149.12589163038624151820.tglx@xen13> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Hi Thomas and Karim, On Sun, 2022-05-22 at 14:14 -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On 5/22/22 10:54, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Tom, Karim! > > > > As you might know we are working on cleaning up the licensing mess > > in the > > kernel and convert it to SPDX license identifiers as the only > > source of > > license information. > > > > Archaeology found unspecific GPL license references, which have > > been > > authored by you. > > > > 1) this file is released under the gpl > > > > kernel/relay.c > > > > Can you please either send cleanup patches for the affected files > > or > > indicate which GPLv2 variant you had in mind and I run it through > > my > > cleanup machinery. > > Thanks for the ping. > > I assume you mean the GPLv2 variants from here: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0?h=v5.18-rc7 > > In that case, I'd say that the intent was to follow what Linus had > been > using: i.e. GPL-2.0 or GPL-2.0-only. > > That said, since it was Tom that got this code included and did most > of > the work on it, I think he'd have to confirm what his view was as > well. Yes, GPL-2.0-only was the intent, so please use that and run it through your cleanup machinery, thanks. Or I can send a cleanup patch if that's easier for you, just let me know. Thanks, Tom > > Cheers, >