From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC843C43387 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8482120855 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2019 02:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727001AbfARCxe (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:53:34 -0500 Received: from mail-pf1-f172.google.com ([209.85.210.172]:36484 "EHLO mail-pf1-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726818AbfARCxe (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:53:34 -0500 Received: by mail-pf1-f172.google.com with SMTP id b85so5821645pfc.3; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:53:33 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=M7BzZURXlPsa4cII/baSEe4psByFQkYhr7b0zz2Rrn4=; b=eH2tLRTHs5qSn0AbC1/DCz+terPSN6p7YpjWK5haQ0dCRk9SZx0Ua7/cdnLWlgRznq Ii2ap3hBX5sJvw1swNaCaW0aXtaiWlg3K3YhqZUZFDpwrkFQOl4WFTQFGDFm318QKw3A Y89+hvCFfQvCVLbGFxcUBybIzJZ6Hh/M8D6HIcMPpmSOOtEoWHgxTv3lEJG/BFe4lrFK eNprLpiwdeM630i+QU/GDAHBahXVaIIMbXcd0Xe9El6rVeaUsyMQ5sDAl/VTJ8mQvyM7 my5PjRzCywLbLt4gE/UWb0Xl4cqOS72Y/8ofyeLzJ5xt24gywXJ43Kh0pAQwpZ4AK1OZ S8tA== X-Gm-Message-State: AJcUukdnaYSMG+dn8w4eMdTpPLXlYvhOre04H3oacvOnoLCmVSJd71Ep j5mM1e142AoGQ3WwmqQNOPILXFF3 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ALg8bN4+/XAs+h5ttFCqLMfIpliflqrFKJSSUrtM+SashTHW6l3bkcf86j+C/XCgkMx4Ii7ipzUZmw== X-Received: by 2002:a63:441e:: with SMTP id r30mr16133677pga.128.1547780012822; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from asus.site ([2601:647:4000:5dd1:a41e:80b4:deb3:fb66]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o1sm4467386pgn.63.2019.01.17.18.53.31 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:53:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [patch 1/9] block: Cleanup license notice To: Thomas Gleixner , LKML Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kate Stewart , Jonathan Corbet , Bart Van Assche , Damien Le Moal , Matias Bjorling , Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org References: <20190117231416.111952141@linutronix.de> <20190117231500.874215239@linutronix.de> From: Bart Van Assche Message-ID: <1ee7cf07-5077-a331-3aab-ae107df02ef2@acm.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:53:30 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190117231500.874215239@linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/17/19 3:14 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Remove the imprecise and sloppy: > > "This files is licensed under the GPL." > > license notice in the top level comment. > > 1) The file already contains a SPDX license identifier which clearly > states that the license of the file is GPL V2 only > > 2) The notice resolves to GPL v1 or later for scanners which is just > contrary to the intent of SPDX identifiers to provide clear and non > ambiguous license information. Aside of that the value add of this > notice is below zero, My intent was to release this under GPL v2, hence: Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche