Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] irqchip: Add driver for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs | From | Richard Fitzgerald <> | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:17:44 +0100 |
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On 10/09/18 13:08, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: > On 10/09/18 12:33, Lee Jones wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: >>>> On 30/08/18 11:31, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: >>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ >>>>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 >>>>>> +/* >>>>>> + * Interrupt support for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs >>>>>> + * >>>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Cirrus Logic >>>>>> + * >>>>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >>>>>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >>>>>> the >>>>>> + * Free Software Foundation; version 2. >>>>> >>>>> You have the SPDX identifier above, which makes this boilerplate >>>>> superfluous. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Our legal people want it left here. >>>> They are ok with the SPDX reference, but they want to keep an >>>> explicit statement of the license that was intended. >>> >>> The SPDX identifier is an explicit statement. Sigh... >> >> Richard, could you please try to re-engage with your legal team and >> explain that the SPDX identifier replaces the licence statement. >> > > I'll ask.
I just dug out what our legal dept told me, and noticed a point they made is that the licence referenced by the SPDX still says that these headers should be added to each source file.
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