Re: [GIT PULL] SPDX update for 5.2-rc3 - round 1

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Greg, Thomas,

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 3:49 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The following changes since commit cd6c84d8f0cdc911df435bb075ba22ce3c605b07:
>
>   Linux 5.2-rc2 (2019-05-26 16:49:19 -0700)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git tags/spdx-5.2-rc3-1
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 96ac6d435100450f0565708d9b885ea2a7400e0a:
>
>   treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Kbuild (2019-05-30 11:32:33 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> SPDX update for 5.2-rc3, round 1
>
> Here is another set of reviewed patches that adds SPDX tags to different
> kernel files, based on a set of rules that are being used to parse the
> comments to try to determine that the license of the file is
> "GPL-2.0-or-later" or "GPL-2.0-only".  Only the "obvious" versions of
> these matches are included here, a number of "non-obvious" variants of
> text have been found but those have been postponed for later review and
> analysis.
>
> There is also a patch in here to add the proper SPDX header to a bunch
> of Kbuild files that we have missed in the past due to new files being
> added and forgetting that Kbuild uses two different file names for
> Makefiles.  This issue was reported by the Kbuild maintainer.
>
> These patches have been out for review on the linux-spdx@vger mailing
> list, and while they were created by automatic tools, they were
> hand-verified by a bunch of different people, all whom names are on the
> patches are reviewers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm sorry, but as long[*] as this does not conform to
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst, I have to provide my:
NAked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[*] The obvious solution is to update Documentation/process/license-rules.rst,
    as people have asked before.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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