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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-20T10:37:51Z

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 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

Looks sane to me, I'll take in the SPDX tree now, thanks.

greg k-h