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Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:23:24 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        <linuxarm@...wei.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: libsas: Add missing license and update to SPDX
 license identifier

On 27/11/2018 14:43, Greg KH wrote:

Hi Greg,

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:15:32PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
>> Currently sas_task.c has no license specifier, so add SPDX license
>> identifier for GPL-2.0+.
>>
>> As mentioned in commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0
>> license identifier to files with no license"), files with no license in
>> the kernel are under default kernel license.
>
> The default is GPLv2, not v2+.

So sas_task.c should be v2.

>
>>
>> While I'm at it, all other libsas source code files are updated to use
>> SPDX license identifier for GPL-2.0+.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/libsas/Kconfig
>> index 13739bfa..bdc6bce 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/Kconfig
>> @@ -4,22 +4,7 @@
>>  # Copyright (C) 2005 Adaptec, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>  # Copyright (C) 2005 Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@...ptec.com>
>>  #
>> -# This file is licensed under GPLv2.
>> -#
>> -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> -# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> -# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the
>> -# License.
>> -#
>> -# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> -# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> -# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>> -# General Public License for more details.
>> -#
>> -# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> -# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>> -# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
>> -# USA
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>
> No, the above license is GPLv2 only, do NOT change the license of a file
> unless you have permission to do so.

Of course. That was not my intention. My mistake.

>
> Also, the spdx line goes at the first line of the file.

JFYI, checkpatch.pl does pick up on this for .c/.h files but not this one.

>
>
>>  #
>>
>>  config SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/Makefile b/drivers/scsi/libsas/Makefile
>> index 5d51520..75998b7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/Makefile
>> @@ -4,22 +4,7 @@
>>  # Copyright (C) 2005 Adaptec, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>>  # Copyright (C) 2005 Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@...ptec.com>
>>  #
>> -# This file is licensed under GPLv2.
>> -#
>> -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> -# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> -# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the
>> -# License.
>> -#
>> -# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> -# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> -# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>> -# General Public License for more details.
>> -#
>> -# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> -# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>> -# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
>> -# USA
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>
> Again you changed the license, not good :(

I was thrown by having a different license for the Kconfig+Makefile vs 
.c/.h.

>
> Please do not make these types of changes unless you really know what
> you are doing, it is not ok to change the license of files.

Right, of course.

>
> greg k-h
>

Thanks, I'll fix them properly,
John