On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 12:38:48AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > for Debian packaging having SPDX license tags already simplifies > creating the required copyright documentation considerably. Another > information that is needed for Debian packaging is the copyright > information. There is an SPDX way for copyright information, too. The > second patch converts scripts/kallsyms.c to that mechanism as an example > to maybe discuss if we want to do that in the kernel. > > While the SPDX-FileCopyrightText is officially a free-form field, I > suggest to just stick to the format > > (<year> )?<copyright holder> > > to simplify machine consumption even further. Adding the linux-spdx list and Linus. If we go with this format (which doesn't sound bad), we'll clearly need to document the format we want, and that people should use it.
