Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Thu 2015-02-26 10:26:50, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > So that GPL header at begining of each file becomes one line... and so > > that if it is BSD/GPL dual licensed is plain to see, and I don't have > > to read the notices saying "oh this is gpl.. but if you want to, > > delete gpl above and u

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2015-02-25 16:00:47, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:49:51PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > >Is one tag per directory sufficient? Is one tag per file sufficient? > > > > >How about one tag per package? If package, then isn't a single tag for > > > > >the w

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-26 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:26:50AM +, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > So that GPL header at begining of each file becomes one line... and so > > that if it is BSD/GPL dual licensed is plain to see, and I don't have > > to read the notices saying "oh this is gpl.. but if you want to, > > delete g

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-26 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> So that GPL header at begining of each file becomes one line... and so > that if it is BSD/GPL dual licensed is plain to see, and I don't have > to read the notices saying "oh this is gpl.. but if you want to, > delete gpl above and use license below". That won't happen though. You'd require eve

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-25 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:49:51PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > >Is one tag per directory sufficient? Is one tag per file sufficient? > > > >How about one tag per package? If package, then isn't a single tag for > > > >the whole kernel source tree sufficient, as we all know the overa

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-25 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > >Is one tag per directory sufficient? Is one tag per file sufficient? > > >How about one tag per package? If package, then isn't a single tag for > > >the whole kernel source tree sufficient, as we all know the overall > > >license for the kernel source tree. > > > > We really need one

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-05 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> We really need one tag per file. Of course the resulting license for the > Linux kernel is clear. But there are many things to take into account You don't even need that. Generate a set of hashes and paths of the kernel files, put the hashes and the paths and your tags into a database, enjoy.

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-04 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
te: > >>>>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >>>>>On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>>>>>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >>>>>>>BTW: u-boot

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > Because of this it is really important to know the exact license(s) for each > and every file. And they can vary very much. Here some examples: > > GPL v3 or later: > > scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.c_shipped > scripts/dtc/d

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-04 Thread Stefan Roese
-Hartman wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier which will be nice to start to use. I agree, feel free to start sending patches to use this type of identifier for drivers. But we probably need to add that Licenses

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
an wrote: > >>>>On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >>>>>BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier > >>>>>which will be nice to start to use. > >>>> > >>>>I agree, feel free to star

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-02 Thread Stefan Roese
simple: $ git grep -e SPDX-License-Identifier will tell you filename and license. Or did I misunderstand your question ? But for doing this it is probably necessary to have location where you will place that licenses and you will explain what it is how it is done by Wolfgang in this commit

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:10 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:26:52 -0800 > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >> > >> > BTW: Isn't this a good topic for kernel-summit? :-) >> >> No, lawyers don't go to the summit, d

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-25 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:26:52 -0800 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > > > > BTW: Isn't this a good topic for kernel-summit? :-) > > No, lawyers don't go to the summit, developers do. More of a topic for the LF. Particularly as any attemp

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-24 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > > BTW: Isn't this a good topic for kernel-summit? :-) No, lawyers don't go to the summit, developers do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org M

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-24 Thread Michal Simek
ieve that they should know how this should be handled properly. > > The SPDX can not give legal advice; not to you, and not to your > company. One lawyer might believe that > > /* > * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > */ > > Might be sufficient. Others mig

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-24 Thread Theodore Ts'o
ot give legal advice; not to you, and not to your company. One lawyer might believe that /* * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ Might be sufficient. Others might believe you need to do: /* * Copyright Ty Coon, 2012. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ Still others might believe you

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-24 Thread Michal Simek
On 02/21/2014 08:01 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:57:20AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> But shouldn't we at least write somewhere >>> that it has connection to spdx.org where you can find out that licenses. >> >> Why? Are these licenses so unknown that no one knows w

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:57:20AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > But shouldn't we at least write somewhere > > that it has connection to spdx.org where you can find out that licenses. > > Why? Are these licenses so unknown that no one knows what they are? > And, as part of the kernel-as-a-

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
> >>> On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >>>>> On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Michal Simek
21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>> On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>>>>> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier >>>

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
; On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > >>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > > >>>> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier > > >>>> which will be nice to start to use. > > >>>

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Felipe Balbi
07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >>>> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier > >>>> which will be nice to start to use. > >>> > >>> I agree, feel free to start sending patches to use this type of > >>> identifier for

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Michal Simek
On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >> On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>>> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-Lice

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2014-02-21 Thread Felipe Balbi
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > On 02/21/2014 05:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:38:16AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >> BTW: u-boot started to use SPDX-License-Identifier > >> which will be nice to sta