On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 05:56:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 05:39:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I'd usually follow what qemu or libvirt are doing, and as far as I can > > see they are not using these. > > It is a non-trivial undertaking for any established project with > multiple copyright holders. > > The license header is generally not something you are permitted to > change generally unless you are the copyright holder, or have the > copy holders' agreement. Despite this, we can see the kernel did > such a switch, replacing license headers with SPDX tags. My > understanding though, is that there was work done behind scenes > with legal input before they actually merged the patches, as a > means to justify this change. > > On any newly written project I'd certainly use SPDX, but IMHO > for existing projects it isn't viable unless we see clear legal > advice explaining a process to follow that makes it acceptable > to replace license text with SPDX.
This is true. We actually had to get agreement from all copyright holders before we removed a single line from the nbdkit copyright notices and that was a right PITA: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/952ffe0fc7685ea775ed8879bf0b2cb9df3d9044 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
