From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753242AbdJUHsg (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:48:36 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45156 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751442AbdJUHsf (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2017 03:48:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:48:41 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Rob Herring Cc: "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Kate Stewart , Philippe Ombredanne Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: add SPDX identifiers to all files in drivers/usb/ Message-ID: <20171021074841.GB19934@kroah.com> References: <20171019083832.GA21820@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:26:22AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to > > audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. This patch adds these > > identifiers to all files in drivers/usb/ based on a script and data from > > Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. > > > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > > Cc: Kate Stewart > > Cc: Philippe Ombredanne > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > --- > > Unless someone really complains, I'm going to add this to my tree for > > 4.15-rc1. > > Glad to see this. I've been suggesting folks use SPDX tags on dts > files as those are often dual licensed, so we have lots of license > boilerplate. But I've had some push back[1] but it's not something I > care to spend cycles on. It would be good to have some statement on > the use of tags. Anything new should use them (I can dust off my > checkpatch.pl check for this)? This is a good task for newbies? It's > each maintainer's decision? It's the copyright holder's (and their > lawyer's) decision? As for what type of a task this is, we have a script and a huge database that has been worked on by some people to make a lot of this pretty "automatic" to apply. For the "odd" issues that Russell is worried about, those we can take as a case-by-case basis after we get through all of the obvious ones first. Thomas and I are going to talk about this next week in Prague to see if we can come up with a plan... thanks, greg k-h