Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:34:19 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] LICENSES: Add missing License Text and fixup bogus identifiers |
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:08AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > There are a few bogus SPDX identifiers in various files and SPDX > > Identifiers used in tree or about to be used which have no corresponding > > License Text file in the LICENSES directory or use the new variant of the > > GPL-2.0[+] license identifiers which are not mentioned in the GPL-2.0 > > Valid-License-Identifiers: tags. > > > > The following series cleans that up: > > > > - Use the proper identifiers > > > > - Add GPL-2.0-only and GPL-2.0-or-later identifiers to the GPL2.0 license > > > > - Add X11, Apache-2.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0, CCDL-1.0, Linux-OpenIB license texts > > to the LICENSES directory along with the required documentation texts > > I'm thinking we need a script to keep these in check, right? Does > checkpatch.pl handle knowing what the "currently good" list of license > tags are, or should we just use a separate script to parse the LICENSES/ > directory to get that list?
checkpatch.pl does not know about it. I have a python script which does the parsing of the LICENSES directory and checks against every file in the tree. I need to make that work with patches. I'm not sure whether checkpatch.pl should grow all the parser knowledge, I guess it can just invoke the script and be done with it.
Thanks,
tglx
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