From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0011.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7736A33B6F9; Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.11 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767814741; cv=none; b=tYUeCxBotB+3gMquNYLfpMHoWThHC4crhRmYEpVaJA8aNl2WYalrImQZHOFvnBso749itSm4eY27ppoGRH5jOCkzRWJoQL/SzhsZg4+yhT2wl8lk6wRiLKj8LdBBpcoFjW8CpF7UHJM+nzvOZ9dHlb7AbEZ3inc0cgJZCx9rnJU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1767814741; c=relaxed/simple; bh=OiHKxYtjxg32qIgexqg9vuqB56t7QY266JHqWTwOE0U=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=DBiCDoEW5xXPihECgJU2KBVbQVuZc7HbzSAETjAAOs+2VAHKHyXDslrZOkUVe1zUMkMGZM2aSBh/xuhkfH7IiBkpF9nx2wm9BJWb0boPeDJjGXjREIrFEDTj4c6EdNORph/BduZzJt3xmr79uwJaEBDZZjCuk9oNP8iUFvKUVDA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.11 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com Received: from omf03.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EBD1604ED; Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:38:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id ACF326000C; Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText From: Joe Perches To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Thomas Gleixner , Jonathan Corbet , Andy Whitcroft , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:38:41 -0800 In-Reply-To: <2026010726-crusader-recoup-4825@gregkh> References: <20260107171246.242973-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> <4702253d918c8edb899a91fbd79b40199a013264.camel@perches.com> <2026010726-crusader-recoup-4825@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2 (3.56.2-2.fc42) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Stat-Signature: o3hjh6u665w7q1ngwpwac6i3ej9cbx99 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout02 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: ACF326000C X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX18xLqUBePl34TjQp3oJfOe+LD+Un8ATmTY= X-HE-Tag: 1767814722-932982 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX18aCjojfg6QQg+nfGB6yvucaBoY0VG/q7KUNvDi5cXqYKd4zyfc5630hpLafsLCQU182krvPHPfdLx2AjVQ64DIkjUbRvRCGPXR1Wx8NN8pxN6b1XdlU2jsntzfgmJobSfYyECcW9J8uh8GZZFQDcdVPQoNPodDnFjdXkRREPRbEQhLhC+UuV2kA5TjrBIJEkbHnQ8FQQm7BpLRxEBHBfD7fLGSbGFh2DbFRuzbtDLuEudQNujteSaGsVNAkp3bx8TM4Rw1gM8SgeezIvdzFI+Muke/8haWyjl3IJAJS5tOflFIAvEgS0qq On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 20:35 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 18:12 +0100, 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 unnotic= ed. > >=20 > > I find no value in this tag. I think it should be discouraged. > >=20 > > How is it different or more useful than a typical Copyright or =A9 symb= ol ? >=20 > It's easier to parse automatically and put into other places (like a > software bill of materials). >=20 > I don't like it all that much either, as really, it doesn't mean much > (go talk to a lawyer for details), but it's already in our tree so we > might as well document it... Document it doesn't mean encourage it.