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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 2/2] irqchip: Add driver for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs
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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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