From: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags where applicable
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:42:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190313094200.fl23pb4ng4htleus@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190310210626.GA21252@ravnborg.org>
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:06:26PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Roland.
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 09:42:25PM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this thread has been open for some time now without any more responses.
> > The only motion against it was from Oleksij, who asked me remove the
> > license headers in favour of having only the SPDX-License-Identifier
> > tags. I replied that I think both the human-understandable license
> > headers and the machine-readable tags have their own value, but there
> > was no further argument.
> I agree with Oleksij here.
> We have the license information we need expressed using the SPDX tag,
> and we shall avoid the remaining license boiler plate.
>
> If one needs to read the license text it is in the tree.
> And when we do not have it in the file one does not have to read
> it both in the file and in the tree when this is relevant
> to look into.
> The rest of us is just glad to have less boilerplate to
> drag around with.
OK thanks. There was less feedback than I'd hoped for, but what was
there went in the same direction, so I'll spin a v2 without the headers.
- Roland
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-07 22:39 Roland Hieber
2019-02-07 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-or-later " Roland Hieber
2019-02-07 22:39 ` [PATCH 3/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags for files without licensing information Roland Hieber
2019-02-07 22:39 ` [PATCH 4/6] include: add SPDX LGPL-2.1-or-later license tags where applicable Roland Hieber
2019-02-07 22:39 ` [PATCH 5/6] include: spi: add SPDX GPL-2.0-or-later " Roland Hieber
2019-02-07 22:39 ` [PATCH 6/6] include: spi: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags for files without licensing information Roland Hieber
2019-02-08 5:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags where applicable Oleksij Rempel
2019-02-08 8:59 ` Roland Hieber
2019-02-08 9:09 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2019-02-11 10:25 ` Roland Hieber
2019-02-15 8:57 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2019-02-15 11:18 ` Roland Hieber
2019-02-22 13:25 ` Roland Hieber
2019-02-11 11:06 ` Roland Hieber
2019-03-10 20:42 ` Roland Hieber
2019-03-10 21:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-03-13 9:42 ` Roland Hieber [this message]
2020-02-02 15:42 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] SPDX license tags and (L)GPL boilerplate cleanup Roland Hieber
2020-02-02 15:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags where applicable Roland Hieber
2020-02-03 7:42 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-02-02 15:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-or-later " Roland Hieber
2020-02-03 7:45 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-02-03 18:46 ` Roland Hieber
2020-02-02 15:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags for files without licensing information Roland Hieber
2020-02-03 7:47 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-02-02 15:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] include: add SPDX LGPL-2.1-or-later license tags where applicable Roland Hieber
2020-02-03 7:49 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-02-03 18:48 ` Roland Hieber
2020-02-02 15:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] include: spi: add SPDX GPL-2.0-or-later " Roland Hieber
2020-02-03 7:50 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-02-02 15:43 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] include: spi: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags for files without licensing information Roland Hieber
2020-02-03 7:51 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] SPDX license tags and (L)GPL boilerplate cleanup Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags where applicable Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-or-later " Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags for files without licensing information Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] LICENSES: add LGPL-2.1-or-later Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] include: add SPDX LGPL-2.1-or-later license tags where applicable Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] include: spi: add SPDX GPL-2.0-or-later " Roland Hieber
2020-02-13 12:12 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] include: spi: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags for files without licensing information Roland Hieber
2020-02-17 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] SPDX license tags and (L)GPL boilerplate cleanup Sascha Hauer
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