Folks, after the initial SPDX sweep of the kernel, people have slowly started to fixup the licensing mess. The current approach has some issues:
1) With the current rate of changes we are going to be finished in about 10+ years from now 2) The error rate with these cleanups is frightening high. It got even higher since the 'run a script and fix random bits' folks have decided that this is a new playground. It's not because it really needs a lot of dilligence. We've had a discussion at the Legal and Licensing Workshop in Barcelona and came to the conclusion that this needs to be tackled in a larger scale effort with massive tooling support. I've looked into automating a lot of these conversions and there is a halfways workable way to get at least up to 90-95% coverage without spending insane amounts of time. The remaining 5-10% of horrors are special cases which need a lot of thoughts anyway. As we need help from lawyers with this, we decided to set up a dedicated mailing list to spare those people the wonderful experience of the daily LKML mail flooding. The list address is: linux-s...@vger.kernel.org It's open and archived at: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spdx/ If you're interested to help, please subscribe. We'll start to work there as of tomorrow. Thanks, Thomas
