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 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 54DB0C282DD for ; Fri, 24 May 2019 02:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1267D217D9 for ; Fri, 24 May 2019 02:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731721AbfEXCkU (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2019 22:40:20 -0400 Received: from mail-vs1-f67.google.com ([209.85.217.67]:34202 "EHLO mail-vs1-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727037AbfEXCkU (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2019 22:40:20 -0400 Received: by mail-vs1-f67.google.com with SMTP id q64so4831702vsd.1 for ; Thu, 23 May 2019 19:40:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=7V3JgtSmX0Cw3Vk4S3wOEUhXvP6dwkyq4mN0X+jU0yE=; b=dz+j8QmB0m3Pfv2G2P4kjcGOebAAGK1vh3d+YfzFldW7pP1pnGkJDKay8By3BCJTNp CgDBcqFzT6aESjeZQI+ln+AMaROwKAFdohU3O+tgQsrJR11gYztXNs/n6g3C8FxER7CM 1gmlgkhCCuOxiFfFkEhIke0vfKdR5pDLq8t9OA67vApRjUARMvXotZuK298nGOp27+I6 vxC3c+dRMQ/1OHSjzuMgOuSA1u8oG0HTOGdbSX/tOQjZ9cso3v6ksZ+VQXVf+ZgZdUAT EiDxnmpBoIpym/Fxo37hL9T1KjQrnKeqTrM+BfCSd/1HQ2Gm6i/quoPCDphrqLaYR5DR 87gQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUDTnKqyutaNxT7+B24zOTjsPUZn9krM2xaZp8xrhBJ4uP+kYW1 vtvgNxzaMFX9+s9RLRGLONje2/HUuT2yaHPgIfIvow== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxJMp8hPxDzMf1n8iXzWJQbJ5KOguq2FzqcuRBscE8mkXIYfPaPziQJb/avpL9M72x0CNefeKRABsKnd0wzsRw= X-Received: by 2002:a67:f8cf:: with SMTP id c15mr8760564vsp.174.1558665619499; Thu, 23 May 2019 19:40:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190520075121.768803433@linutronix.de> <20190520075211.039040246@linutronix.de> <20190522131836.GA28920@kroah.com> <53b3e7cd-8eda-be3c-9821-fd7c1d9092ac@lohutok.net> In-Reply-To: <53b3e7cd-8eda-be3c-9821-fd7c1d9092ac@lohutok.net> From: Richard Fontana Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 22:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch 05/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 80 To: Allison Randal Cc: Greg KH , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:20 PM Allison Randal wrote: > > On 5/22/19 9:18 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:49AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > >> This pattern has a simple, relatively high level disclaimer sentence. > > > > What does that mean? > > The disclaimer includes some BSD-style disclaimer text, but is so > high-level/generic that it may not be materially different than the > usual GPL-style disclaimer. (That's both my interpretation of what > Richard was saying, and my own opinion when I reviewed the patch.) Actually the reason I called it out is that I don't know how we should handle it. For reference, since thanks to my top-posting the context was lost, it was this: > this program is licensed as is without > any warranty of any kind whether express or implied Having done a tiny amount of legal research I'm starting to feel more comfortable with the idea of nonretention of at least a lot of these non-GNU disclaimer statements. Certainly this one. (That's not to dismiss the underlying GPL compliance issue I called attention to, though.) Richard