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From: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 07:54:12 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180810215412.GM32374@eros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180810065752.2ab5473d@lwn.net>

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 06:57:52AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:46:36 +1000
> "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for clarifying.  My understanding is now; this is a case where
> > checkpatch is too verbose and we do not actually need to add a specific
> > license identifier to the documentation files (new or otherwise).  They
> > get an implicit GPLv2.
> 
> The objective actually is to have SPDX tags in all files in the kernel.
> That includes documentation, even though people, as always, care less
> about the docs than they do the code.
>
> As I understood it, the complaint with the tags you put in wasn't their
> existence, it was your putting GPLv2+ rather than straight GPLv2.  In the
> absence of information to the contrary, you really have to assume the
> latter, since that's the overall license for the kernel.

Righto, thanks Jon.  GPLv0 tags going in for v3


	Tobin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-10 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-09  5:23 [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-09  5:23 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] docs: net: Fix various minor typos Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-09  5:23 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] docs: Separate and convert filter.txt to RST Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-09  5:23 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] docs: Judiciously use double ticks Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-09  5:23 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/4] docs: Remove filter.txt from the tree Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-09  6:07 ` [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST Alexei Starovoitov
2018-08-09  7:27   ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-09  8:24     ` Daniel Borkmann
2018-08-10  1:46       ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-10 12:57         ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-08-10 17:51           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-08-11 11:50             ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-08-13 19:37               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-08-10 21:54           ` Tobin C. Harding [this message]

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