linux-kernel - Re: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

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Message-ID: <20171122132328.GA26023@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:23:29 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Herring <rob.herring@...aro.org>,
        Jonas Oberg <jonas@...e.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@...il.com>,
        Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca@...e.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to
        describe how to properly identify file licenses

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 09:51:17AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Also, one may forget that headers use /**/ and end by doing the wrong
> thing, as a common practice is to just cut-and-paste the same copyright
> header on both C and H files at development time.

Yes.

> Make headers_install could replace such macros by SPDX comments when
> installing on userspace.

Agreed.  Or for that matter we could simply stick to the comment version
for UAPI headers only, and have a macro for everything else.

> >    - Breaks in assembly, boot and other special source files. There was no
> >      easy solution to that and the result would have been to have macros in
> >      some files and not in others.
> 
> At the end, we have different markups, depending on the file type.
> I guess the main problem of using a macro is that a module composed
> by multiple C files will end by defining it multiple times. Not sure
> if gcc would do the right thing on grouping everything altogether
> and producing the right equivalent to MODULE_LICENSE().

We'd basically need to add a new entry to a section, similar to how
say __setup works in the core kernel.  But I think the important bit
is to start with a macro now, even if it has zero functionality to
start with - at least that enables us to fill the functionality once
needed.

> Also, at least on media, I found cases where the same module
> has multiple licenses, e. g. some files that are grouped together on
> a module are GPL v2 only, while others are GPL v2+.

A module always has the least permissive license of all files.