linux-kernel - Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:53:18 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>, monstr@...str.eu, balbi@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de>
Subject: Re: SPDX-License-Identifier

On Thu 2015-02-26 10:26:50, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > So that GPL header at begining of each file becomes one line... and so
> > that if it is BSD/GPL dual licensed is plain to see, and I don't have
> > to read the notices saying "oh this is gpl.. but if you want to,
> > delete gpl above and use license below".
> 
> That won't happen though. You'd require every single corporate legal
> department of every large company that touched the file to agree that the
> SPDX was equivalent to the content, and some of them probably won't.
> Lawyers don't seem to believe in #include <legalese.h>

Umm. I'd still like to see SPDX where corporate lawyers allow that,
and for new files.
									Pavel
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