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,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no 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 1BBB1C433E0 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC524206A1 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2406844AbgFYTw3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:52:29 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0038.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.38]:56156 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2406569AbgFYTw0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:52:26 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C37181D3025; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:52:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: swing96_4211ca926e4f X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 8103 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf20.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <43e55eb146d8e66ba1aaf057b807e6bd6ed16d78.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only From: Joe Perches To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Enric Balletbo i Serra , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Collabora Kernel ML , groeck@chromium.org, Benson Leung , Dmitry Torokhov , Gwendal Grignou , Andy Shevchenko , Benjamin Tissoires , Bernardo Perez Priego , Daniel Campello , Enrico Granata , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , Jonathan Cameron , Lee Jones , Nick Crews , Pi-Hsun Shih , Stephen Boyd , Wen Yang , Yicheng Li Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:52:21 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20200625170356.225136-1-enric.balletbo@collabora.com> <026b38ff947e338a468567dfd20fbde1419bb094.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.2-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM Andy Shevchenko > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra > > > > wrote: > > > > > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only > > > > > tag. > > > > > > > > Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old > > > > and new variants are okay. > > > > > > If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license > > > style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org. > > > > They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > > > > So, fix documentation in the kernel then. > > That said, NAK to the patch as long as in-kernel documentation says it's valid. Maintainers and authors should get to chose whatever license text they prefer with the assent of the licensors. A NAK here by you doesn't make much sense to me. $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/platform/chrome/ Benson Leung (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT) Enric Balletbo i Serra (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) $ git log --no-merges --format="%an <%ae>" drivers/platform/chrome | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 53 Enric Balletbo i Serra 23 Gwendal Grignou 16 Nick Crews 15 Dmitry Torokhov 9 Prashant Malani 9 Benson Leung 8 Javier Martinez Canillas 6 Shawn Nematbakhsh 5 Nick Dyer 5 Daniel Campello 4 Tzung-Bi Shih 4 Thierry Escande 4 Stephen Boyd 4 Pi-Hsun Shih 4 Olof Johansson 4 Eric Caruso 4 Douglas Anderson 4 Bill Richardson 4 Arnd Bergmann 3 Wolfram Sang 3 Stephen Barber 3 Raul E Rangel 3 Peter Zijlstra 3 Olof Johansson 3 Evan Green 3 Enrico Granata 3 Brian Norris 2 Jett Rink 2 Javier Martinez Canillas 2 Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 Guenter Roeck 2 Gene Chen 2 Dan Carpenter 2 Christian Engelmayer 2 Aaron Durbin 1 YueHaibing 1 Yilun Lin 1 Yicheng Li 1 Wolfram Sang 1 Wen Yang 1 Wenkai Du 1 Wei Yongjun 1 Vincent Palatin 1 Vic Yang 1 Tomeu Vizoso 1 Tim Wawrzynczak 1 Thomas Gleixner 1 Thierry Reding 1 Simon Que 1 Sergiu Cuciurean 1 Sarthak Kukreti 1 Salvatore Bellizzi 1 Rushikesh S Kadam 1 Robin Schroer 1 Ravi Chandra Sadineni 1 Rajat Jain 1 Nicolas Boichat 1 Neil Armstrong 1 Navid Emamdoost 1 Nathan Chancellor 1 Mohammed Habibulla 1 Mika Westerberg 1 Michael Mullin 1 Masahiro Yamada 1 Logan Gunthorpe 1 Linus Torvalds 1 Krzysztof Kozlowski 1 Kirill Smelkov 1 Kees Cook 1 kbuild test robot 1 kbuild test robot 1 Joseph Lo 1 Jon Flatley 1 Jeffery Yu 1 Jarkko Nikula 1 Hyungwoo Yang 1 Heiner Kallweit 1 Guenter Roeck 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman 1 Geliang Tang 1 Emil Karlson 1 Emilio López 1 Colin Ian King 1 Clinton Sprain 1 Chuhong Yuan 1 Christoph Hellwig 1 Christophe JAILLET 1 Charlie Mooney 1 Bhumika Goyal 1 Bernardo Perez Priego 1 Ben Dooks (Codethink) 1 Archana Patni 1 Andy Shevchenko 1 Al Viro