Re: [PATCH v4] LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText

Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-20T09:47:59Z

On 01/03/2026 15:33, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more
> appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed. On the
> other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add
> checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and
> copyright. That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed.
>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>
> Other way would be to remove SPDX-FileCopyrightText from existing files
> and disallow this, but one way or another we should be explicit about
> it. Otherwise people will be sending more of these and each maintainer
> would need to make their own call.

Hey folks, any further comments here?

Is there a preference that this tag should be instead removed from the
kernel and checkpatch should not allow it?

Honestly, I don't care about the way but I do care of having it
defined/codified.

Best regards,
Krzysztof