Re: WTF? Re: [PATCH] License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:39:40AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:20:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > NAK, for both the libxfs patch and the kernel one.
> 
> What libxfs patch?  And what "kernel one" are you referring to here?
> 
> > I wrote the file and it has no copyright header because it conatians
> > trivial, non-copyrightable code.
> 
> What file exactly?
> 
> And from what I know, there is nothing that is "non-copyrightable".
> 
> And this isn't changing the copyright of _ANYTHING_ it is just putting
> the explicit license of the file, on each file in the kernel, because it
> needs to be tracked.
> 
> > I don't know why people think they can touch license information on
> > files I've written without even asking me.
> 
> Nothing was changed, the license should be the exact same as it was
> before.  But as I don't know what file you are referring to here, it's a
> bit hard to determine what you are talking about exactly :(

fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_cksum.h

--D

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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