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=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 5001AC04AAC for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 16:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23132214DA for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 16:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=nexb-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.i=@nexb-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.b="MfK38BNa" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2390227AbfETQum (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 May 2019 12:50:42 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com ([209.85.221.65]:41363 "EHLO mail-wr1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388598AbfETQum (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 May 2019 12:50:42 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f65.google.com with SMTP id g12so15122934wro.8 for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 09:50:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nexb-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=U0QARAy4bYI3s277c31ovBKNNW5j9GvoPJC9xfz5Fik=; b=MfK38BNat5wEZl4rn6sRyKN4tHIoHl+q191lLgzCpjxFua0uu4XvdYgr47G+brsDD2 Qmg6b1QaMaJ3GlncNKr+n6+0Ep7wGg5AcJbozO3WX44c6z4ANzxyU2HKXBZsqj4eP3et bYYbGiF1aYAtwqAbO3TL1Di4rYzNAqK771HL2QuZ5GtM8/0R/Z2lJqgvb/zHYxFIS7cg ZszvWT8bGcsWkTwL7qvod/jMXOzuMCzBdMQLxyLwlhq0KtqDKdKZKtEGuZIa5xTebQyy uXDQnbnC2jw/hdtwc3ViGV5C6oNJhcaZfyLBE8oB5HI25jpVVm0fc3SxFs+NNOKSrhWZ P65w== 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=U0QARAy4bYI3s277c31ovBKNNW5j9GvoPJC9xfz5Fik=; b=lGLfZZeQy9FmNFo7+al9qg6lRY0ZQEb6jZGtwv9e6Z/r+zcXjjtXABl862ozVLGDNW /WJRLLFl4yfk+Bqk7AQFb/KUYFrOmxdcIlGKHgKLcSK9Dgs617SyxIlxJcw6BPxxXAuz MFX+BznUPDLXIBzc5PHC0y+4Z5rAZDaOJyViFPCmCpiwX2my8BOpZSNQ7G74Mvk7dCLY xqiP5iNW5nInpYqJiiQ9wAyiah8PsiUMc/xi0hzNlVKECluDWKyB7HKfC4eE7cZlKnF+ Ie0kcaV+3gwZLfx5SNjfpl19w/Ez2UgJhVNMPePsCuPJmDeFyrYJvL3lHCTXULYtioi7 DtJw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAV2GbJ0RuiLwXCN3TZsxGT9V1ePa+/SWCRqeIL93q3WVOJc7FUp XQ64A57rE3SsJaZXTOqy3fQuNeEVPHFe0pJ1/BG3XuGdrjw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwQu5qQsnoK0G7gn9i4Ipqj01Bakt9m0x0w5auhFEppp8RidLXGJ5kPUBlik+x8Mjn4qryKy+gwwu2u/6qNtQY= X-Received: by 2002:adf:fb47:: with SMTP id c7mr31529577wrs.116.1558371040743; Mon, 20 May 2019 09:50:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20190519135130.462579320@linutronix.de> <20190519154041.143362410@linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: From: Philippe Ombredanne Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 18:50:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch 06/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 6 To: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Cc: Steve Winslow , Thomas Gleixner 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 Hi Thomas and Steve! On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 1:10 PM Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Sun, 19 May 2019, Steve Winslow wrote: > > > Same comment here as for patch 16: the additional all-caps disclaimer > > paragraph in the middle (beginning with "THIS SOFTWARE IS > > PROVIDED...") appears to come from a BSD-style license, not GPL. I'm > > not sure this disclaimer should be deleted and replaced by just a > > standard GPL-2.0-or-later tag. > > Right. Did some archaeology. This thing seems to originate from TI, via > RidgeRun Inc. and then proliferated by Monta Vista and others. I did some light digging on my own and there are possibly two main cases that I listed in [1]: - things that have such a disclaimer but always in the clear context of a GPL license such as [2] - things where some BSD-like license terms were removed, but the disclaimer kept such as [3] IMHO the first case is a non issue and is clearly GPL. The second case may require some deeper historical review. [1] https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/issues/1569 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/log/drivers/net/can/slcan.c [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git/commit/drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c?id=4023c4747861e8c56f46e5fa50bd4feb63fc91fc -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne