linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] kbuild, PCI: microchip: comment out MODULE

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:06:46 +0000
From:   Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>, mcgrof@...nel.org,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] kbuild, PCI: microchip: comment out MODULE_LICENSE
 in non-modules

On 13 Feb 2023, Leon Romanovsky said:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 04:13:00PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:
>> So SPDX is usually more precise than the MODULE_LICENSE, but is it more
>> *accurate*? I have no idea, and I don't see how I could possibly know:
>> going by the presence of advertising clauses that obviously nobody is
>> obeying it doesn't seem like we can trust header comments to be any more
>> accurate than MODULE_LICENSE. Best to just leave both in (and comment it
>> out so it has no side-effects on the build any more, which is all I'm
>> after).
>
> You are overcomplicating things.
>
> First, GPL == GPL v2.
> Second, SPDX is the right one. License in module is needed to limit
> EXPORT_SYMBOL* exposure.
> Third, we have git log and git blame to audit and revert any change.
> There is no need in leaving (even as commented) dead code.

Agreed. I audited the lot anyway -- all those files I'm touching that
lack SPDXes (14 of them) have copyright headers at the top of the file
anyway, so there is *definitely* no legal implication from dropping
this. Moving to just dropping them in the next round.

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