On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 06:29:48PM +0100, Daniel Scheller wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Am Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:49:32 +0100 > schrieb Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:01:27PM +0100, Daniel Scheller wrote: > > > From: Daniel Scheller <d.scheller@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > This series adds SPDX license identifiers to all source files which are > > > copyright by either Digital Devices GmbH or Metzlerbros GbR, who are > > > the original authors of the ddbridge, ngene, cxd2099, mxl5xx, stv0910 > > > and stv6111 bridge/demod/tuner drivers, with the mxl5xx driver being > > > based on source code released by MaxLinear. > > > [...] > > > The original intention was to fully replace all the licensing headers > > > with only the SPDX License Identifiers as it is done in a lot of other > > > in-tree drivers nowadays. However, Digital Devices disagreed to do this > > > and expressed major concerns regarding this, in that a machine readable > > > license tag instead of a full license boilerplate won't hold up equally, > > > so we agreed to keep the license boilerplate text as is right now. > > > > That's really odd, who at that company can I talk to about this? Or > > really, what lawyer at that company can I point my lawyer at to talk > > about this, that's the only way this is going to get resolved. > > I'm not entirely sure, but I guess for a first start it's best to > contact Ralph (from Metzlerbros) and Manfred (from Digital > Devices), being the authors and copyright owners of the DDDVB driver > package where the drivers originate from and thus is the upstream for > the mainlined copies of the mentioned drivers. Both are in the Cc list > (rjkm and mvoelkel) of this thread. > > > If it helps, _ALL_ of the major companies that are kernel developers are > > onboard with the removal of the crazy boiler-plate text, so this tiny > > holdout should be easy to resolve. > > > > > Greg, I'm Cc'ing you on this due to the last paragraph, as AFAIK you're > > > one of the initiators of the SPDX tagging initiative, and you even added > > > tags to 10k+ files all over the tree :-) so we maybe can discuss this > > > further, also with DD, in the hopes you're fine with this - sorry in > > > advance if not. > > > > See my review of your first patch here, this needs to be done a lot > > differently... > > Check. Thanks for reviewing. The intent was to do a full cleanup of all > licensing things in one go, per driver. Will do one patch for SPDX and > eventual boilerplate cleanup for all drivers, one for MODULE_LICENSE > and one for missing headers in the next iteration. Though I'd wait > with that for now if you like to contact Ralph and Manfred, and do a v2 > based on the outcome. You can always just do the "add a SPDX line" patches now, that touch nothing else. No one can get upset at that. thanks, greg k-h
