From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423046AbdKRQaA (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:30:00 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-f195.google.com ([209.85.128.195]:35866 "EHLO mail-wr0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422957AbdKRQ3t (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:29:49 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGs4zMYJ8PP87LX/1qQYU7Z1kuuSbAkCLrMg4tWrjBOe9i3bwKiOcOzz08z8iSzfySlp/CAqh+OxtetRtK6tCucBmNQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171118155318.6a1f3b3f@archlinux> References: <20171118091011.9061-1-martink@posteo.de> <20171118155318.6a1f3b3f@archlinux> From: Philippe Ombredanne Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:29:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iio: mma8452: replace license description with SPDX specifier To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Martin Kepplinger , harinath922@gmail.com, pmeerw@pmeerw.net, lars@metafoo.de, knaack.h@gmx.de, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner 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 Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:10:11 +0100 > Martin Kepplinger wrote: > >> This replaces the custom license information text with the appropriate >> SPDX identifier. While the information here stays the same, it is easier >> to read. >> >> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger >> Acked-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler > > I'm not 100% sure the intent of the SPDX work is to remove > existing licence text. So far the big sets have only been > adding tags to files missing their licenses entirely... > > Anyone found any specific guidance on this? Jonathan: you might want to check the doc patches from tglx [1] as well as several related patches from greg k-h such as these [2] and his initial pull [3] To get a lot of details you can check all the recent SPDX-related posts too [4] [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151051532322831&w=2 [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151068111802610&w=2 [3] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150963579219623&w=2 [4] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=spdx&q=b -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne