On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 06:46:58PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Given that it had no license text on it at all, it "defaults" to GPLv2, > > so the GPLv2 SPDX identifier was added to it. > > > > No copyright was changed, nothing at all happened except we explicitly > > list the license of the file, instead of it being "implicit" before. > > Well if Christoph owns the copyright (if there is one) and he has stated > he believes it is too trivial to copyright then it needs an SPDX tag that > indicates the rightsholder has stated it's too trivial to copyright and > (by estoppel) revoked any right they might have to pursue a claim. If Cristoph has revoked any right to pursue a claim, then he's also legally given up the right to complain if, say, Bradley Kuhn starting distributing a version with a GPLv3 permission statement --- or if Greg K-H adds a GPLv2 SPDX identifier. :-) - Ted > I'm sure there's a correct SPDX tag for that ;-) > > Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
