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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: Taylor Simpson <tsimpson@quicinc.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 09:06:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYOirmDXpPq16ZMi@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211103203146.3630550-1-f4bug@amsat.org>

On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 09:31:46PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Use Qualcomm License Identifier tool [*] to classify linux-user/
> files per license type, filtering those matching at least 60% the
> "GPLv2 or later" type, and manually add the GPL-2.0-or-later SPDX
> comment.

When you say  "manually add", can you confirm that you explicitly
inspected every license header yourself to validate that the reported
match truely is GPL-2.0+, before adding the SPDX tag.

Adding licenses tags based merely on a 60% match, without doing
human inspection would be questionable.

Regards,
Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-04  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-03 20:31 [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-03 20:35 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-04  9:06 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2021-11-04 10:02   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-04 15:17     ` Taylor Simpson
2021-11-04 22:14       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-09 16:51         ` Warner Losh
2021-11-09 16:58 ` Warner Losh

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