From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752469AbdKKVbE (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:31:04 -0500 Received: from ul.coyote.org ([198.50.187.229]:39541 "EHLO ul.coyote.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752307AbdKKVbD (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:31:03 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 531 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:31:03 EST Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:21:59 -0500 From: Jonas Oberg To: Charlemagne Lasse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , carmenbianca@fsfe.org, Masahiro Yamada Subject: Re: Adding LICENSES folder for REUSE Message-ID: <20171111212159.GA25689@silk.coyote.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Charlemagne, > Since some people started to add the SPDX headers to some files, it > might now be the right time to ask to get a LICENSES folder which will > contain the separate licenses. I wouldn't do that now. Adding SPDX license identifiers is in most cases quite sufficient and something which I would encourage first. What you mention about the LICENSES/ folder and the License-Filename tag (which can be repeated) is an addition which is a bit more specific, especially for BSD licenses where the SPDX license identifier alone does not convey information about the specific "attribution requirement" of each licensor. Most often though, as you find the BSD licenses in the source code headers, we wouldn't want the license text separated from them, and it would be contrary to the REUSE principles to do so. So for now, I would recommend to focus on the SPDX license identifiers and then work out the other details later. -- Jonas Öberg Executive Director FSFE e.V. - keeping the power of technology in your hands. Your support enables our work, please join us today http://fsfe.org/join