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[217.103.152.109]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n8sm447527ejk.45.2019.05.24.10.19.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=AEAD-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 24 May 2019 10:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Implement SPDX-Copyright To: Max Mehl , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org References: <1558706708.m0wpla3nbm.2220@fsfe.org> From: Armijn Hemel - Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=armijn@tjaldur.nl; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsBNBFUHGDMBCACvTqCg+gpeT0siXY414eCO6guTvQm1CObf6gzhsa4IRhzG5ZrT+hSjluIF gnAFoOZxYXZVWoq+SCbBfWSLuVZnFb4jrBoNbNqyd9xPKT92UQoI9aib90Klq6tt0VcvO6Ke 10duM69mhBao6McGPHqOl6sBGjgfKzwQKEYa/W2sXgSiZgyAniAm8dcgCNMWeU8i6AFw/tu2 CDSIlGJD/ScTJ63sxvFCLU/yauhqcHj/uHVISFEVU/TR0aruhU59WJcTh7M6YXm9T/KwP/dv bFtXxS2XfWDXNLq1Fin90E0Kh924GQBwn85yt65EyzsiqMCQbIQCOu1HcqMUV7MBgYJ/ABEB AAHNIEFybWlqbiBIZW1lbCA8YXJtaWpuQHRqYWxkdXIubmw+wsB4BBMBAgAiBQJVBxgzAhsD BgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRCoU7oX+9OE+8ixCACQPJzd/FC/+Ab1RY8R T1BTUef0t31cGNkoEvmE5+oyqf2xDEdDb9dG6D0qOvu8kxMG7i/lNmWaBdSwbWLv+JRBcEHa Em3d3ck/ln3ulWIHLX1FFINlPh+dZqNZYnBxFMJ8sNR8tM3DOS0q/3GTAnQVK8M6arl8yoFP diwgg0ApHeJnPD75UJHHCly31D2HyMw2xgVxmW/s1gT9gwYx1AN5W9VYgUD9cJhPzPJH2Y9+ JkcSDFB57OOb+2WVCT85Rnaha/FPXkJkgfwuurutHEJDujAAYPPcIKiqWaOarJ1bI2a81Rzh wiD3wfjfcbq9MTkynq2APGjf0OqV3ymZf7rdzsBNBFUHGDMBCACq+VkgujBe13OQq0duCuwe cpgcFV4H5AU1TE9QyYh8m4FGFSiQzMRbDK/jqxA6wzNHoazxcRPBC7Wt5QcDeIeVvErJAtiP JmqWGHsiN6PMDoi+jO4q9iiqU7FcMNiTxGlPMbVHApWqX9+X1Liuf+j371YxZNxGh/5sLpRK iULNGj4tfOYqvbgTKYuPTHPPF1AVVQQdC5Bl3RmxhpDiZw5QAeLDHbXAh8KBO3be8QoDVzMp lUXgSvtwAKhO/mbfM1AyiMY3ilONYFKMmRRviVeyaTRDWJuMuAESsBHAcM04EzQFZTC9/yYI QEuymc+ZRr78WtS9eRrbd6Dtbfk5FVhRABEBAAHCwF8EGAECAAkFAlUHGDMCGwwACgkQqFO6 F/vThPtk7gf+Nvi8DZOOl/qGa86B20NO3jQ0pyi4nGtIeey46v9dwTmRqFIKDAnKLyV8Z7+2 ND0Xd8gPxrEnHRrdGB6hsQpQ/l4a2htk7CW/qGB3TkzTwBU2gS4mZEXSzUtv05CLHgmr+xkV s5Cy33RttqFm5TqAZUhhUbl5c4EgRpb/a60KZlYUBilsKzHCHAP6qGKZ8p7hnvL2oGDs71Gx uWIYynzE8Tl40P7UHtcVaTC1x61e8cOzaWMSSnrtQKAr6QsSf/w97EEG48jePV0tLkaGhaJk 1mRmS3/svWX51OjvCJjSHNAoq9W+i2UDZ06YLnET8DMug8BESHi5ww8ldBybQkzkvw== Message-ID: <3cc01ab7-9f44-f459-3e42-da05ed5fc5e1@tjaldur.nl> Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 19:19:57 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1558706708.m0wpla3nbm.2220@fsfe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On 5/24/19 4:22 PM, Max Mehl wrote: > Let me give a concrete example. The following header from one of the > first patches sent around here: [snip] This is a very simple example that most existing tools will pick up just fine so as Greg already said: what problem will this solve? I would be more concerned about how many existing tools would *break* with this new syntax. > > > The usage of (C) or any other copyright symbols would probably be up to > personal style or legal requirements. Legal requirements? As far as I know there is no need to explicitly declare copyright to have copyright protection in the relevant jurisdictions. > All this tag intends to achieve is > to make automatic tooling more robust. Do you have examples of where this approach would perform better than existing tools? Those would be much more convincing. If not it would be a waste of time and energy IMO. armijn -- Armijn Hemel, MSc Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions