The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: check proper licensing of Devicetree bindings
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-check-proper-licensing-of-devicetree-bindings.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-check-proper-licensing-of-devicetree-bindings.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-check-proper-licensing-of-devicetree-bindings.patch
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From: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: check proper licensing of Devicetree bindings
According to Devicetree maintainers (see Link: below), the Devicetree
binding documents are preferrably licensed (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause).
Let's check that. The actual check is a bit more relaxed, to allow more
liberal but compatible licensing (e.g. GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200108142132.GA4830@bogus/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200309215153.38824-1-lkundrak@xxxxx
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cc: Jonas Karlman <jonas@xxxxxxxxx>,
Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxx>,
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>,
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-proper-licensing-of-devicetree-bindings
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3171,6 +3171,17 @@ sub process {
WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr);
}
+ if ($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ &&
+ not $spdx_license =~ /GPL-2\.0.*BSD-2-Clause/) {
+ my $msg_level = \&WARN;
+ $msg_level = \&CHK if ($file);
+ if (&{$msg_level}("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
+
+ "DT binding documents should be licensed (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/SPDX-License-Identifier: .*/SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)/;
+ }
+ }
}
}
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from lkundrak@xxxxx are
checkpatch-check-spdx-tags-in-yaml-files.patch
checkpatch-check-proper-licensing-of-devicetree-bindings.patch
