On Thu, 23 May 2019, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:39:47PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > 1) The simple one Richard pointed out today (Rule 80) > > > > This program is licensed "as is" without any warranty of any kind, > > whether express or implied. > > > > Files total: 592 > > > > Files without Copyright notice: 94 (needs git archaeology) > > > > Copyright holders: 177 > > how do you determine who is a copyright holder? Is it sufficient to look > at those who added themselves to a copyright notice? Or may there be more > copyright holders to a file than those listed in that notice -- and might > they have contributed their work with that additional disclaimer as well? Yes, that's a concern and that's why I proposed to keep the custom disclaimers around and mark them accordingly. See: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/alpine.DEB.2.21.1905201915150.1635@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks, tglx
