On Wed, 8 May 2019, Allison Randal wrote: > On 5/8/19 9:23 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Yes, the scripts produce logs and of course once the patch is applied you > > can see from the diffstat which files are touched. So we have lots of ways > > to figure out what has been changed and its preserved in the git history > > forever. > > Nod, but what I meant was the "wall of shame" file that the lawyers > wanted, which preserved each variant license notice text and a list of > the files that had it removed. > > I thought the idea was horrible, and said so at the time, but they > aren't wrong that the GPLv2 has a requirement to "keep intact all the > notices that refer to this License". None of us managed to come up with > a better alternative than moving the notices into a doc file, with some > introductory text to say "please never do this again, just use SPDX > headers". > > Though, maybe it would be better if I said nothing and allowed the whole > idea to be forgotten... Ahhh that one. That's an easy to do add on if people insist ....
