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
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > On 02.02.2015 17:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > >>On 21.02.2014 17:18, Michal Simek wrote: > >>>On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at

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
On 02.02.2015 17:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: On 21.02.2014 17:18, Michal Simek wrote: 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-Ha

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:43:14PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > On 21.02.2014 17:18, Michal Simek wrote: > >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

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2015-02-02 Thread Stefan Roese
On 21.02.2014 17:18, Michal Simek wrote: 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-Li

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 linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-24 Thread Michal Simek
On 02/24/2014 02:41 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>> But of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if your company has is paying for >>> the development of the driver, the Golden Rule applies (he who has the >>> Gold, makes the Rules), and each of

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-24 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:12:53AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > > But of course, I'm not a lawyer, and if your company has is paying for > > the development of the driver, the Golden Rule applies (he who has the > > Gold, makes the Rules), and each of our respective corporate lawyers > > may have d

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 Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 06:26:08PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > On 02/21/2014 05:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20:45AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:18:39PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > >>> On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe B

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Michal Simek
On 02/21/2014 05:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20:45AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:18:39PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: >>> On 02/21/2014 05:12 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:04:26PM +0100, Michal Simek wr

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:20:45AM -0600, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:18:39PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > > 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-Hartma

Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

2014-02-21 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi, On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:18:39PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote: > 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 wrot

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-License-Identifier which will