Re: [PATCH] misc: remove COPYING from doc/ Makefile

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On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:43:13AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:41:54PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > COPYING is gone now, so make doc-install breaks.
> > 
> > Fixes: 959ef98 ("xfsprogs: convert to SPDX license tags")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The patch itself looks good, but I think we have a deeper problem,
> in that there is no actual license information anywhere in xfsprogs now.
> 
> We need to fix that up similar to the LICENSES/ directory in the kernel.
> SPDX tags are good and nice, but without an explanation what they mean
> in the same source tree they are useless.

Sorry, what? I added that as part of my spdx conversion patch. That
patch also removed the COPYING file.

How did these changes get merged? I sent a pull request to convert
everything in xfsprogs and that had all the correct conversions and
documentation in it. here's the pull request:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-xfs&m=152948738523911&w=2

and you can see from the diffstat it did all this stuff...

Cheers,

Dave.
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