linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to headers with no license

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Message-ID: <20191114033212.GA161229@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:32:12 +0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export,module: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to
 headers with no license

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 08:46:11PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 7:15 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:50:53PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > Commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
> > > identifier to files with no license") took care of a lot of files
> > > without any license information.
> > >
> > > These headers were not processed by the tool perhaps because they
> > > contain "GPL" in the code.
> > >
> > > I do not see any license boilerplate in them, so they fall back to
> > > GPL version 2 only, which is the project default.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> >
> > Ah, nice catch!
> >
> > I'll queue this up to my spdx tree if no one objects.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> 
> No objection (comment) so far.
> 
> I think it is OK to apply this.

Ok, will go do so, thanks.

greg k-h