On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Jonas Oberg <jonas@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >> One other thing that occurred to me is that documentation files, too, >> are copyrightable and should have license identifiers. > > Would it make sense to take an incremental approach to this? Get the > source code and identifiers worked on by Thomas et al through first, then > think about and fix up potential other issues, like the top level COPYING > file, or documentation :-) I could not agree more... code first! FWIW I scanned the whole docs with scancode as part of this exercise. They are rather ... messy license-wise, but even though I got through it eventually they also generally less critical license-wise IMHO. You can see some details of these scans in [1] though they are not 100% up to date: I did not post every intermediate scans and review there as things are moving at a fast pace. There are probably more pressing things to fix such as discrepancies between a MODULE_LICENSE and the licensing of a file when they do not match. Here [2] the top level comment is a plain GPL-2.0 "only" while the MODULE_LICENSE is a GPL-2.0+ "or later" (based on the plain "GPL" definition in module.h [3] and this is just one of many examples of this weirdness. Or fix the non-standard redefinition of the MODULE_LICENSE macro as DRIVER_LICENSE as in [2] and found elsewhere with grep -r . -e "DRIVER_LICENSE" These break the otherwise nicely grepable MODULE_LICENSE macros with this kind of warty redirection I stumbled upon while reviewing kernel license scans: #define DRIVER_LICENSE "GPL" [...] MODULE_LICENSE(DRIVER_LICENSE); [1] https://github.com/pombredanne/linux-kernel-scans/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/alpha/kernel/srm_env.c?h=v4.14#n13 [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/module.h?h=v4.14#n174 [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.h?h=v4.14#n39 -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne -- 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
