On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:26:22AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:38 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to > > audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. This patch adds these > > identifiers to all files in drivers/usb/ based on a script and data from > > Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. > > > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > > Cc: Kate Stewart <[email protected]> > > Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > --- > > Unless someone really complains, I'm going to add this to my tree for > > 4.15-rc1. > > Glad to see this. I've been suggesting folks use SPDX tags on dts > files as those are often dual licensed, so we have lots of license > boilerplate. But I've had some push back[1] but it's not something I > care to spend cycles on. It would be good to have some statement on > the use of tags. Anything new should use them (I can dust off my > checkpatch.pl check for this)? This is a good task for newbies? It's > each maintainer's decision? It's the copyright holder's (and their > lawyer's) decision?
As for what type of a task this is, we have a script and a huge database that has been worked on by some people to make a lot of this pretty "automatic" to apply. For the "odd" issues that Russell is worried about, those we can take as a case-by-case basis after we get through all of the obvious ones first. Thomas and I are going to talk about this next week in Prague to see if we can come up with a plan... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
