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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
	monstr@monstr.eu, balbi@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:26:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226102650.7407cf02@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150225214950.GB29527@amd>

> 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 every single corporate legal
department of every large company that touched the file to agree that the
SPDX was equivalent to the content, and some of them probably won't.
Lawyers don't seem to believe in #include <legalese.h>

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-19  9:40 [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-20 18:23 ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21  6:38   ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:04     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 16:04       ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:12         ` SPDX-License-Identifier (was: Re: [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support) Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:18           ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:20             ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:56               ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 17:26                 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-21 17:57                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 19:01                     ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 10:12                       ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-24 13:41                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-24 14:03                           ` SPDX-License-Identifier Michal Simek
2014-02-24 14:26                             ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-25 12:10                               ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-25 12:25                                 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-02 15:43             ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-02 16:06               ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-04 16:41                 ` SPDX-License-Identifier Stefan Roese
2015-02-05  4:21                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-05  6:41                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-25 21:49                     ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-25 22:00                       ` SPDX-License-Identifier Felipe Balbi
2015-02-26 21:49                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-26 10:26                       ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2015-02-26 13:39                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Theodore Ts'o
2015-02-26 21:53                         ` SPDX-License-Identifier Pavel Machek
2015-02-05 11:49                   ` SPDX-License-Identifier One Thousand Gnomes
2014-02-21 16:23         ` [PATCH RFC] usb: gadget: Add xilinx axi usb2 device support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-21 11:27   ` Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
2014-02-21 15:39     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-03-10 13:36       ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-03-10 18:44         ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 12:04   ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 13:41     ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 13:57       ` Mark Rutland
2014-02-21 14:06         ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 15:42       ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 15:51         ` Michal Simek
2014-02-21 16:00           ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:15           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-21 15:41     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-02-21 16:13       ` Mark Rutland
2014-03-26 10:07   ` sundeep subbaraya
2014-04-15 17:18     ` Felipe Balbi
2014-04-15 17:55       ` Alan Stern
2014-04-16  4:39         ` Felipe Balbi

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