linux-kernel - Re: WTF? Re: [PATCH] License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

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Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:29:03 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
        xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WTF? Re: [PATCH] License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
 identifier to files with no license

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:20:42AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:39:40AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:20:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > NAK, for both the libxfs patch and the kernel one.
> > 
> > What libxfs patch?  And what "kernel one" are you referring to here?
> > 
> > > I wrote the file and it has no copyright header because it conatians
> > > trivial, non-copyrightable code.
> > 
> > What file exactly?
> > 
> > And from what I know, there is nothing that is "non-copyrightable".
> > 
> > And this isn't changing the copyright of _ANYTHING_ it is just putting
> > the explicit license of the file, on each file in the kernel, because it
> > needs to be tracked.
> > 
> > > I don't know why people think they can touch license information on
> > > files I've written without even asking me.
> > 
> > Nothing was changed, the license should be the exact same as it was
> > before.  But as I don't know what file you are referring to here, it's a
> > bit hard to determine what you are talking about exactly :(
> 
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_cksum.h

Given that it had no license text on it at all, it "defaults" to GPLv2,
so the GPLv2 SPDX identifier was added to it.

No copyright was changed, nothing at all happened except we explicitly
list the license of the file, instead of it being "implicit" before.

thanks,

greg k-h