Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] MIPS: Loongson64: cleanup all cs5536 files to use SPDX Identifier

From: Huacai Chen
Date: Mon Jan 01 2018 - 21:32:52 EST


Zhangjin Wu (wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx) is the original author, I hope he
can give a signed-off. I can only give an ack.

Huacai

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Philippe Ombredanne
<pombredanne@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2017-12-31 Sun 12:17 +0100ïPhilippe Ombredanne wroteï
>>> Did you CC the original authors? You would need their signoff or at
>>> least an ack IMHO
>>
>> Yeah, I CC Huacai Chen in v1 as the Lemote staff who in charge of
>> Loongson's mainline kernel. Can he sign-off for all the original
>> authors who were from ICT and Lemote?
>> As far as I know, some authors are no longer working in Lemote. And I
>> can't see their new email addresses so it may hard to get their ack or
>> sign-off.
>> Thanks for your adivce.
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards
>> Jiaxun Yang
>
> It would best if you can get all acks, at least one authoritative from
> each org involved or from each individual involved if not part of an
> org. I reckon it may be difficult. But then you can document with your
> patch set who you contacted, who you got ack from and who you did not.
>
> Then again you are not changing anything about the licensing: just
> replacing licensing by value (e.g. a full notice) by a license by
> reference (e.g. an SPDX tag that references the full text).
>
> --
> Cordially
> Philippe Ombredanne
>