linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files

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Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:15:16 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kate Stewart <kate@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Rob Herring <rob.herring@...aro.org>,
        Jonas Oberg <jonas@...e.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] LICENSES: Add documentation and initial License files

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 08:18:21PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Folks!
> 
> First of all I want to apologize for the suboptimal process which brought
> this initial SPDX annotation into the kernel. We surely should have posted
> exactly this patch series first, but we were too focused on the actual
> annotation and analysis work, which took place in the last 10 months. As is
> happens often with work which occupies one on the 'technical' level
> completely, documentation is the last thing to think of.

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for doing this, this addresses many of my concerns with the
SPDX license tagging.  For the series:

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

As for the comment style, I'm sure that we'll eventually learn to use
the appropriate style for the file type, but I suspect it won't be
easy as it's not intuitive.

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