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=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT 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 7DC4DC282CE for ; Wed, 22 May 2019 15:45:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42EB220881 for ; Wed, 22 May 2019 15:45:15 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1558539915; bh=4DSv/ApRqNPm7HRFpHtMsD8lbnEK8AexAoYpnNG2C1A=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=PserVQrLO5rbchzrw3Qy/FyjZ+FAafD+F5E3BYryqpV580BwNwZNWIuMJUFK4ZaGx 9sK8tNCU5UEvmEoGQjbLxOYsPGC5daPuvMB6YHVQpNgV0dk/sAkRgARCluOv8BGYj9 zOxAENFpI60d3CJRshrw1VH8+QD/7sbBFHAtoV1U= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729685AbfEVPpP (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2019 11:45:15 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:35916 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729402AbfEVPpO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2019 11:45:14 -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 07DF4208C3; Wed, 22 May 2019 15:45:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1558539914; bh=4DSv/ApRqNPm7HRFpHtMsD8lbnEK8AexAoYpnNG2C1A=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=GDzRbbRa3HZQLRgwORQwh8Ph/8RQWMZlq7Y7+KyUX7Rb+bwJlVzIgUCU3cGbuQUku c7FR5sxNrl72SDYfs0I6MGW0ve9ATn45mhUqPqY7BlgBJco+2g8P4Zr4By01Ns+km+ Y+EzDWg2zGzhv3E8H1C2QjT+dwLyXdEyILqo0aGs= Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 17:45:11 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Allison Randal Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: clarification on -only and -or-later Message-ID: <20190522154511.GA17763@kroah.com> References: <13E71306-C67C-418B-AB71-2C926B3EA58E@jilayne.com> <20190521172435.aez323uuvjcghejd@ebb.org> <595412F8-2FA4-4898-8B98-0251D493CBDA@jilayne.com> <20190522132347.GC28920@kroah.com> <350495e0-12cb-ff16-69bd-94edf50db133@lohutok.net> <20190522140014.GA8996@kroah.com> <4c1d1302-afe3-febc-ba92-0ff6efdc57d0@lohutok.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4c1d1302-afe3-febc-ba92-0ff6efdc57d0@lohutok.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13) Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Allison Randal wrote: > On 5/22/19 3:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Yes and no. There is a good reason to remove the GPL1+ crap completely and > > I already got permission from Redhat to change their GPL/GPL'ed notices to > > GPL-2.0-or-later. So once we get to that pile we might at least try to talk > > with the copyright holders and clarify it. Each odd license which gets > > removed is a win. If we get permission, that's great! But given that we already have 53 files with that tag today, the odds of someone contacting all of those owners is going to be hard :( > We don't necessarily have to do everything in one pass. We could keep > this round of cleanup strictly to an exact substitution of > GPL-1.0-or-later, and do a separate pass at some point in the future to > deprecate and remove GPL-1.0 where possible. I would be amazed if anyone ever does a "follow-on" pass of the tree after we finish with these, other than to add tags to files that sneak in without them :) thanks, greg k-h