From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>,
Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>,
Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/9] block: Cleanup license notice
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:21:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c66207a9-c18c-cd54-fd2a-1703c7bf1b57@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190117231500.874215239@linutronix.de>
On 1/17/19 4:14 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,
Applied, thanks Thomas.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-18 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-17 23:14 [patch 0/9] treewide: Cleanup recently added license mess Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 1/9] block: Cleanup license notice Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 2:53 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-01-18 4:21 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 2/9] crypto: aegis - Cleanup license mess Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 8:02 ` Ondrej Mosnáček
2019-01-25 10:47 ` Herbert Xu
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 3/9] crypto: morus " Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 0:26 ` Fabio Estevam
2019-01-18 6:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-18 8:00 ` Ondrej Mosnáček
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 4/9] crypto: aegis - Convert to SPDX license identifiers Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 8:01 ` Ondrej Mosnáček
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 5/9] crypto: morus " Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 8:02 ` Ondrej Mosnáček
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 6/9] ceph: quota: Cleanup license mess Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 9:42 ` Luis Henriques
2019-01-18 10:48 ` Ilya Dryomov
2019-01-18 10:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 7/9] smb3: " Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-19 5:43 ` Steve French
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 8/9] tools: bpftool: " Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-17 23:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-01-18 0:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-18 23:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-01-17 23:14 ` [patch 9/9] vfio/pci: " Thomas Gleixner
2019-01-23 20:05 ` Alex Williamson
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