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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: broonie@kernel.org, nicolas.pitre@linaro.org,
	davidriley@chromium.org, kstewart@linuxfoundation.org,
	cminyard@mvista.com, john.stultz@linaro.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	keescook@chromium.org, pombredanne@nexb.com, ccross@android.com,
	richardcochran@gmail.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:timers/core] time: Add SPDX license identifiers
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:09:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13e48b62cc28144f3bea88dfd3360307539b72d7.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5dca55ca331311264b22ec7b1be6a4a52c77cc2.camel@perches.com>

On Fri, 2018-11-23 at 20:15 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-11-23 at 03:19 -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The SPDX
> > identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the
> > full boiler plate text.
> 
> Is the "legally binding shorthand" actually proven anywhere?
> I am not aware of any case law for this.

So is there any case law that supports this "legally binding"
statement or is it merely wishful thinking?


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-29  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31 18:21 [patch 0/9] time: Add SPDX identifiers and cleanup boilerplates Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 1/9] time: Remove useless filenames in top level comments Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:18   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 2/9] time: Add SPDX license identifiers Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:19   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-24  4:15     ` Joe Perches
2018-11-29  1:09       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 3/9] hrtimers/tick/clockevents: Remove sloppy license references Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:20   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 4/9] time/debug: Remove license boilerplate Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:20   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 5/9] time: " Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:21   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 6/9] posix-timers/stubs: " Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:21   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 7/9] sched/clock: " Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:22   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 8/9] posix-clocks: Remove license boiler plate Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-01  2:12   ` Richard Cochran
2018-11-23  7:11     ` Manfred Rudigier
2018-11-23 10:31       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:23   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:21 ` [patch 9/9] posix-timers: Remove license boilerplate Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-23 11:23   ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-31 18:35 ` [patch 0/9] time: Add SPDX identifiers and cleanup boilerplates John Stultz
2018-10-31 18:36 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-31 18:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2018-10-31 19:00 ` Corey Minyard
2018-11-05 19:51 ` Ingo Molnar

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