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 6E9F2C4321D for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:17:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6692098B for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:17:57 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org EC6692098B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de 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 S1728085AbeHVWoD (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:44:03 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:36907 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727016AbeHVWoD (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:44:03 -0400 Received: from p4fea45ac.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.234.69.172] helo=nanos) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1fsYdT-0002tz-ED; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:17:43 +0200 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 21:17:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Linus Torvalds cc: Joe Perches , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kate Stewart , Greg Kroah-Hartman , 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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <9f90ed3678d32bdde88d63e877880dcb08a97e15.1534519501.git.joe@perches.com> <7275a821f20ba080b6a262089ceeaf8fa94d4bab.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks, tglx