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 7CC6FC4321D for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:02:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF4B2147D for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:02:23 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 2FF4B2147D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com 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 S1727674AbeHQTGQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:06:16 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0007.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.7]:51382 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726815AbeHQTGP (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:06:15 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C550A18033E6F; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:02:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: end50_6b2e3e4f9461c X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2242 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.153.53]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf12.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <960e6632bb6c9e45845e9078af6dd5939cd3bea6.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] license-rules.rst and LICENSES: Use only spdx version 3 with -only and -or-later From: Joe Perches To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Christoph Hellwig , Russell King , Rob Herring , Jonas Oberg , Andrew Morton , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:02:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20180817053711.1f7ef05b@lwn.net> References: <20180817053711.1f7ef05b@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.1-2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 05:37 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:26:03 -0700 > Joe Perches wrote: > > > The current linux-kernel source git tree has a mixture of the deprecated > > spdx version 2 and the newer version 3 uses. > > > > Update the process/license-rules.rst file to show only the version 3 style > > and use only the version 3 styles in LICENSES. > > > > Add a script to update all old versions in the tree as well. > > > > I suggest this be applied and the script be run and applied immediately > > after an -rc1. The script could also be used at any time after the initial > > use to update any other deprecated spdx license uses. > > All seems OK to me, with one question: if we're going to run the script > and fix everything up, do we really need to add that script to the tree > as well? It seems like something we shouldn't need again. linux-next has other files with licenses that would need to be updated even after an -rc1