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SubjectRe: [PATCH] checkpatch: check proper licensing of Devicetree bindings
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On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 13:33 +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> According to Devicetree maintainers (see Link: below), the Devicetree
> binding documents are preferrably licensed (GPL-2.0-only OR
> BSD-2-Clause).
>
> Let's check that. The actual check is a bit more relaxed, to allow more
> liberal but compatible licensing (e.g. GPL-2.0-or-later OR
> BSD-2-Clause).
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200108142132.GA4830@bogus/
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index e2976c3fe5ff8..ac93e98cddcee 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3111,6 +3111,11 @@ sub process {
> WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
> "'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr);
> }
> + if ($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ &&
> + not $spdx_license =~ /GPL-2\.0.*BSD-2-Clause/) {
> + WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
> + "DT binding documents should be licensed (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)\n" . $herecurr);

I think not unless the existing licenses already
there are changed first. Only about 1/3 are
dual licensed BSD.

Do all the existing license holders agree?

$ git grep -oh "SPDX.*$" Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ | \
sort |
uniq -c | sort -rn
269 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
81 SPDX-
License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
69 SPDX-License-
Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)
23 SPDX-License-Identifier:
GPL-2.0-only
9 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
5 SPDX-
License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
3 SPDX-License-Identifier:
(GPL-2.0+ OR X11)
3 SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)

3 SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0)
2 SPDX-License-Identifier:
GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause
2 SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-
2.0-or-later OR BSD-2-Clause)
2 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR
BSD-2-Clause
1 SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause)

1 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause

There would be way too many false positives given
the current licensing types in existing files.

Also, the link seems to show just a desire for an
OR BSD for this file not a desire for a treewide
change.

But:

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/submitting-patches.txt does show:

3) DT binding files should be dual licensed. The preferred license tag is
(GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause).

So perhaps use code like:

my $msg_level = \&WARN;
$msg_level = \&CHK if ($file);
if (&{$msg_level}("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"The preferred bindings license is '(GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)'\n" . $herecurr)

so that when checkpatch is run over existing files,
this message is not emitted unless using --strict.

Maybe something like:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f3b8434..1734c9b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3124,6 +3124,17 @@ sub process {
if (!is_SPDX_License_valid($spdx_license)) {
WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ if ($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ &&
+ $spdx_license !~ /\(GPL-2\.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause\)/) {
+ my $msg_level = \&WARN;
+ $msg_level = \&CHK if ($file);
+ if (&{$msg_level}("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
+
+ "DT binding documents should be licensed (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/SPDX-License-Identifier: .*/SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)/;
+ }
}
}
}

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