Re: [patch 0/9] LICENSES: Add missing License Text and fixup bogus identifiers

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:08AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> There are a few bogus SPDX identifiers in various files and SPDX
> Identifiers used in tree or about to be used which have no corresponding
> License Text file in the LICENSES directory or use the new variant of the
> GPL-2.0[+] license identifiers which are not mentioned in the GPL-2.0
> Valid-License-Identifiers: tags.
> 
> The following series cleans that up:
> 
>  - Use the proper identifiers
> 
>  - Add GPL-2.0-only and GPL-2.0-or-later identifiers to the GPL2.0 license
> 
>  - Add X11, Apache-2.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0, CCDL-1.0, Linux-OpenIB license texts
>    to the LICENSES directory along with the required documentation texts

I'm thinking we need a script to keep these in check, right?  Does
checkpatch.pl handle knowing what the "currently good" list of license
tags are, or should we just use a separate script to parse the LICENSES/
directory to get that list?

Either way, nice work on this series, thanks for keeping up with them.

thanks,

greg k-h