On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 04:18:47PM -0600, J Lovejoy wrote: > > > On 9/9/22 7:34 AM, David Sterba wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 06:00:13AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 12:15:21PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > >>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > >>>> +/* > >>>> + * Copyright (C) 2020 Facebook > >>>> + */ > >>> Please use only SPDX in new files > >>> > >>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Developer%27s_FAQ#Copyright_notices_in_files.2C_SPDX > >> The wiki is incorrect. The SPDX tag deals with the licensing tags > >> only. It is not a replacement for the copyright notice in any way, and > >> having been involved with Copyright enforcement I can tell you that > >> at least in some jurisdictions Copytight notices absolutely do matter. > > I believe you and can update the wiki text so it's more explicit about > > the license an copyright. > > Can you update the wiki text to remove "SPDX" from the heading and > remove the sentence stating, "An initiative started in 2017 [1] aims to > unify licensing information in all files using SPDX tags, this is driven > by the Linux Foundation." I can consider that if you tell me why I should do that, but I don't find anything wrong with the sentence (and I wrote it originally). It's merely stating that something happened and points to a well known linux kernel related web site with more details about it.
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