From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751680AbdK0IPX (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:15:23 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:59928 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751141AbdK0IPU (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:15:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] s390/virtio: add BSD license to virtio-ccw To: Heiko Carstens , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Huth , Cornelia Huck , Halil Pasic , Martin Schwidefsky References: <1511500846-24696-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1511500846-24696-2-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20171124140918.GF4284@osiris> <20171124181148-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20171124165301.GH4284@osiris> <20171124190132-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20171124171834.GA2857@osiris> From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:15:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171124171834.GA2857@osiris> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17112708-0020-0000-0000-000003D0DA63 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17112708-0021-0000-0000-000042663B5F Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-11-27_04:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1711270115 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/24/2017 06:18 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: >>>>> Is there any reason to add the whole BSD 3 clause license text? I'd prefer >>>>> if it would be just the simple new SPDX-License-Identifier above. >> >> I added it for consistency with other virtio headers. > > Well, one of the points of the SPDX tags is to avoid the countless > duplication of license texts. Adding a license text is easy, removing it > again later is not as easy. Therefore I would prefer to avoid the > duplication here again. > > Cornelia, Christian, any opinion here? I would prefer to not have the full licence text and only have the SPDX string if that is allowed by the licence.