On 02/21/2014 05:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20:45AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:18:39PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>> On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>> On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>>>> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier >>>>>>> which will be nice to start to use. >>>>>> >>>>>> I agree, feel free to start sending patches to use this type of >>>>>> identifier for drivers. >>>>> >>>>> But we probably need to add that Licenses to one location. >>>>> Documentation/Licenses? >>>> >>>> Just add to the drivers themselves, just like u-boot is doing. A simple: >>>> >>>> $ git grep -e SPDX-License-Identifier >>>> >>>> will tell you filename and license. Or did I misunderstand your question ? >>> >>> But for doing this it is probably necessary to have location where >>> you will place that licenses and you will explain what it is how >>> it is done by Wolfgang in this commit. >>> >>> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=eca3aeb352c964bdb28b8e191d6326370245e03f >>> >>> Then yes, adding one line is enough. >> >> spdx.org has all licenses, why don't we just rely on that instead of >> adding every other license to the kernel source ? > > Yes, all that will be acceptable is a one-line identifier in the file. > No need to have all the different licenses in the kernel source, that's > crazy and not needed at all. > > I've told the SPDX people this in the past, and they keep promising that > they will do the comment work, but it's been months and I have yet to > see a single patch... But shouldn't we at least write somewhere that it has connection to spdx.org where you can find out that licenses. I have no problem to use this one-line identifier at all. Thanks, Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng), OpenPGP -> KeyID: FE3D1F91 w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel - Microblaze cpu - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM architecture Microblaze U-BOOT custodian and responsible for u-boot arm zynq platform
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