Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:57:00 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] LICENSES: Add missing License Text and fixup bogus identifiers |
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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?
Either way, nice work on this series, thanks for keeping up with them.
thanks,
greg k-h
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