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Message-ID: <874jshl2er.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:02:36 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Cc:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
        Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Docs: Add missing SPDX license identifiers of

SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org> writes:

> Some subsystem documents are missing SPDX license identifiers on index
> files.  This patchset adds those.

Documentation/ is far behind on the SPDX front, and I'm all in favor of
fixing that.  I do worry, though, about sticking license declarations
onto files that did not previously have them; do we know what the
original contributor's intent was?

> Changes from v1
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230114194741.115855-2-sj@kernel.org/)
> - Separate from index file content changes
> - Separate patch for each subsystem doc (Alex Deucher)
> - Use MIT license for gpu (Alex Deucher)
>
> SeongJae Park (8):
>   Docs/crypto/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/driver-api/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/gpu/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/hwmon/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/input/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/mm/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/scheduler/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>   Docs/sound/index: Add missing SPDX License Identifier
>
>  Documentation/crypto/index.rst     | 2 ++
>  Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 2 ++

I added this one, and GPLv2 is fine there.

>  Documentation/gpu/index.rst        | 2 ++
>  Documentation/hwmon/index.rst      | 2 ++
>  Documentation/input/index.rst      | 2 ++
>  Documentation/mm/index.rst         | 2 ++
>  Documentation/scheduler/index.rst  | 2 ++
>  Documentation/sound/index.rst      | 2 ++
>  8 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

Thanks,

jon