From: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes for v4.15-rc3
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 00:34:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOFm3uGCqQFbEqEqYVMFjWXXm-UhoVo35ytUO5ebwEF9WOZekg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyBSiDAHpEzou2h=RSna1a2Fyi4hrJDME9D3m942VfU9A@mail.gmail.com>
Linus,
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This pull is a bit larger than I'd like but a large bunch of it is
>> license fixes, AMD wanted to fix the licenses for a bunch of files
>> that were missing them,
>
> Oh Christ, couldn't they have just added the one-liner SPDX tags
> rather than doing that crazy "new 22 line boiler plate garbage to
> fifteen random Makefiles"?
>
> I pulled it, but let's try to reign in the crazy "lets add filler
> lines" behavior, ok?
>
> Alex, can you talk to the AMD lawyers and ask them about just putting
> the SPDX line instead?
>
> Linus
You made my day! I shall add that every time someone sends a patch
with long legalese boilerplate instead of a shorter SDPX tag, there is
a kitten that dies somewhere.
--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne, your friendly kernel licensing decraper
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-08 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-08 1:20 [git pull] drm fixes for v4.15-rc3 Dave Airlie
2017-12-08 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-12-08 23:34 ` Philippe Ombredanne [this message]
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