Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2017, 14:45:34 CET schrieb Philippe Ombredanne: > Klaus, > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Klaus Goger > > <klaus.goger at theobroma-systems.com> wrote: > > This patch series replaces all the license text in rockchip devicetree > > files text with a proper SPDX-License-Identifier. > > It follows the guidelines submitted[1] by Thomas Gleixner that are not > > yet merged. > > > > These series also fixes the issue with contradicting statements in most > > licenses. The introduction text claims to be GPL or X11[2] but the > > following verbatim copy of the license is actually a MIT[3] license. > > The X11 license includes a advertise clause and trademark information > > related to the X Consortium. As these X Consortium specfic points are > > irrelevant for us we stick with the actuall license text. > > > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10091607/ > > [2] https://spdx.org/licenses/X11.html > > [3] https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html > > FWIW, the X11 license name was not always something clearly defined. > SPDX calls it clearly MIT which is the most widely accepted name for > the corresponding text. And this is also what we have in Thomas doc > patches that should be the kernel reference. > > Also, as a general note, you want to make sure that such as patch set > is not merged by mistake until you have collected an explicit review > or ack from all the copyright holders involved. Just for my understanding, is it really necessary to get Acks from _all_ previous contributors? I see that Thomas patches moving license texts into the kernel itself do not seem to have landed yet, but when the actual license text does _not_ change and only its location to a common place inside the kernel sources, it feels a bit overkill trying to get Acks from _everybody_ that contributed to Rockchip devicetrees for the last 4 years. If we would actually want to change the license I would definitly feel differently, but the license text does not change. Thanks Heiko
