Re: [PATCH 1/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags where applicable

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:48:26AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> please remove deprecated license headers in same patch.

I decided to leave them to record the original author's intent. There
are several variations on the GPL headers in the project, the one
extreme is the full GPL license header including a warranty disclaimer,
but the other extreme is only a "GPLv2" and nothing more. We can decide
on the project level to apply the warranty disclaimer. But by removing
the license headers from individual files, the original author intent is
lost – maybe the didn't want to include the disclaimer, maybe they
didn't care, in any case it is not in our possibility to decide over
their copyright matters and for most of the cases it is too late to
track some of the people down and ask them.

This all becomes important when someone forks our files to a new
project. And if that someone does not know what the SPDX license tags
actually mean, it's better to have the original documentation on the
file level.

I noticed that Linux usually removes the license headers and only keeps
the copyright lines, but I wasn't able to find any reason for that. Do
you have more insight here?

 - Roland

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