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=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 5150FC04A6B for ; Mon, 6 May 2019 18:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2746620830 for ; Mon, 6 May 2019 18:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726743AbfEFSzO (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2019 14:55:14 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:38724 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726529AbfEFSzN (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2019 14:55:13 -0400 Received: from p5de0b374.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([93.224.179.116] helo=nanos) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hNilb-0000fn-9q; Mon, 06 May 2019 20:55:11 +0200 Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 20:55:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: LKML cc: Greg KH , Kate Stewart Subject: Kernel License cleanup Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Folks, after the initial SPDX sweep of the kernel, people have slowly started to fixup the licensing mess. The current approach has some issues: 1) With the current rate of changes we are going to be finished in about 10+ years from now 2) The error rate with these cleanups is frightening high. It got even higher since the 'run a script and fix random bits' folks have decided that this is a new playground. It's not because it really needs a lot of dilligence. We've had a discussion at the Legal and Licensing Workshop in Barcelona and came to the conclusion that this needs to be tackled in a larger scale effort with massive tooling support. I've looked into automating a lot of these conversions and there is a halfways workable way to get at least up to 90-95% coverage without spending insane amounts of time. The remaining 5-10% of horrors are special cases which need a lot of thoughts anyway. As we need help from lawyers with this, we decided to set up a dedicated mailing list to spare those people the wonderful experience of the daily LKML mail flooding. The list address is: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org It's open and archived at: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/ If you're interested to help, please subscribe. We'll start to work there as of tomorrow. Thanks, Thomas