From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752082AbdJTP0p (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:26:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wr0-f196.google.com ([209.85.128.196]:51717 "EHLO mail-wr0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751912AbdJTP0o (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 11:26:44 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+Tb760wfK/mCyBYorE9XNyoNkT0TZcwnmXymvlZXJEcLx3v74dIn+6alGRd37Hi6fctj16YBZhgvwW5oF5A6xI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171019083832.GA21820@kroah.com> References: <20171019083832.GA21820@kroah.com> From: Rob Herring Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:26:22 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: add SPDX identifiers to all files in drivers/usb/ To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Kate Stewart , Philippe Ombredanne Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Rob [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/28/750