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=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT 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 1463BC4321D for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9CF1208FA for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:46:19 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org B9CF1208FA Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linuxfoundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728169AbeHVXMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:12:31 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37078 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727687AbeHVXMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:12:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (5355525A.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.85.82.90]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 418C1CDD; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:46:13 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds , Joe Perches , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kate Stewart , Christoph Hellwig , Russell King , Rob Herring , Jonas Oberg , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] license-rules.rst and LICENSES: Use only spdx version 3 with -only and -or-later Message-ID: <20180822194613.GB3457@kroah.com> References: <9f90ed3678d32bdde88d63e877880dcb08a97e15.1534519501.git.joe@perches.com> <7275a821f20ba080b6a262089ceeaf8fa94d4bab.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 09:17:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:01 AM Joe Perches wrote: > > > > > > How likely is it that this is applied at rc1? > > > > I'm staying out of the crazy license name bikeshedding, so it's going > > to be up to the people who have decided they care. > > > > I think whoever *did* care and argued for the change to the SPDX > > format is a hopeless wanker. "GPL-2.0{-only,-or-later}" is in no ways > > better than the "GPL-2.0{,+}" that was in an earlier version of the > > SPDX spec > > > > So I want nothing at all to do with pointless patches. Life is too > > short to deal with this. > > > > Other people disagree, so I expect I will get these kinds of stupid > > noise patches through the usual channels. > > I'm not a great fan of that change either. We have settled on a well > documented and machine readable format. External tools have to be able to > deal with SPDX versions anyway and if we do this now, then we have the next > round of pointless churn in a year when the SPDX folks decide to rename yet > another license identifier which is used in the kernel. I too agree with Thomas, the SPDX change was crazy, what we have now is fine and we should stick with it. thanks, greg k-h