Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:52:21 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM Andy Shevchenko > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra > > > > <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> wrote: > > > > > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only > > > > > tag. > > > > > > > > Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old > > > > and new variants are okay. > > > > > > If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license > > > style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org. > > > > They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > > > > So, fix documentation in the kernel then. > > That said, NAK to the patch as long as in-kernel documentation says it's valid.
Maintainers and authors should get to chose whatever license text they prefer with the assent of the licensors.
A NAK here by you doesn't make much sense to me.
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/platform/chrome/ Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT) Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT) linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
$ git log --no-merges --format="%an <%ae>" drivers/platform/chrome | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 53 Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> 23 Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org> 16 Nick Crews <ncrews@chromium.org> 15 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> 9 Prashant Malani <pmalani@chromium.org> 9 Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org> 8 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> 6 Shawn Nematbakhsh <shawnn@chromium.org> 5 Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk> 5 Daniel Campello <campello@chromium.org> 4 Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@google.com> 4 Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@collabora.com> 4 Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> 4 Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org> 4 Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> 4 Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@chromium.org> 4 Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> 4 Bill Richardson <wfrichar@chromium.org> 4 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 3 Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> 3 Stephen Barber <smbarber@chromium.org> 3 Raul E Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org> 3 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 3 Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org> 3 Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org> 3 Enrico Granata <egranata@chromium.org> 3 Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> 2 Jett Rink <jettrink@chromium.org> 2 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> 2 Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> 2 Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> 2 Gene Chen <gene.chen@intel.com> 2 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> 2 Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at> 2 Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org> 1 YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> 1 Yilun Lin <yllin@chromium.org> 1 Yicheng Li <yichengli@chromium.org> 1 Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> 1 Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com> 1 Wenkai Du <wenkai.du@intel.com> 1 Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> 1 Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org> 1 Vic Yang <victoryang@google.com> 1 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> 1 Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org> 1 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1 Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> 1 Simon Que <sque@chromium.org> 1 Sergiu Cuciurean <sergiu.cuciurean@analog.com> 1 Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@chromium.org> 1 Salvatore Bellizzi <lkml@seppia.net> 1 Rushikesh S Kadam <rushikesh.s.kadam@intel.com> 1 Robin Schroer <sulamiification@gmail.com> 1 Ravi Chandra Sadineni <ravisadineni@chromium.org> 1 Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com> 1 Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org> 1 Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com> 1 Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com> 1 Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> 1 Mohammed Habibulla <moch@chromium.org> 1 Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> 1 Michael Mullin <masmullin@gmail.com> 1 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> 1 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> 1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> 1 Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> 1 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> 1 kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> 1 kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> 1 Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com> 1 Jon Flatley <jflat@chromium.org> 1 Jeffery Yu <jefferyy@nvidia.com> 1 Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com> 1 Hyungwoo Yang <hyungwoo.yang@intel.com> 1 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> 1 Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org> 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1 Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> 1 Emil Karlson <jekarlson@gmail.com> 1 Emilio López <emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk> 1 Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> 1 Clinton Sprain <clintonsprain@gmail.com> 1 Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com> 1 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 1 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> 1 Charlie Mooney <charliemooney@chromium.org> 1 Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com> 1 Bernardo Perez Priego <bernardo.perez.priego@intel.com> 1 Ben Dooks (Codethink) <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk> 1 Archana Patni <archana.patni@intel.com> 1 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> 1 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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