On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:30:07AM -0400, Allison Randal wrote: > On 5/22/19 3:20 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Yes and no. There is a good reason to remove the GPL1+ crap completely and > > I already got permission from Redhat to change their GPL/GPL'ed notices to > > GPL-2.0-or-later. So once we get to that pile we might at least try to talk > > with the copyright holders and clarify it. Each odd license which gets > > removed is a win. If we get permission, that's great! But given that we already have 53 files with that tag today, the odds of someone contacting all of those owners is going to be hard :( > We don't necessarily have to do everything in one pass. We could keep > this round of cleanup strictly to an exact substitution of > GPL-1.0-or-later, and do a separate pass at some point in the future to > deprecate and remove GPL-1.0 where possible. I would be amazed if anyone ever does a "follow-on" pass of the tree after we finish with these, other than to add tags to files that sneak in without them :) thanks, greg k-h
