Re: [libgpiod][PATCH] COPYING: organize the licenses in a separate LICENSES directory

[Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:19 AM Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:23:25PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add the LICENSES directory as suggested by Greg KH. It will contain the
> > license files relevant to this project that is: LGPL-2.1 for the library
> > and GPL-2.0 & the Linux-syscall-note for the Linux Kernel uAPI header.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I see you are following the kernel licencing rules wrt license file
> naming and formatting.
> Have you considered following the REUSE spec, as Greg also suggested,
> instead?
>
> Cheers,
> Kent.
>

The library is tightly coupled with the kernel so I thought it's best
to follow the same scheme. Every file also has an SPDX identifier so
together this looks clean to me.

Bart