Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 10:50:37 EST


On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:42:31AM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> Rationale:
> Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
> as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
>
> Deterministic algorithm:
> For each file:
> If not .svg:
> For each line:
> If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
> For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
> If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
> If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
> return 200 OK and serve the same content:
> Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Continuing my work started at 93431e0607e5.
> See also: git log --oneline '--author=Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>' v5.7..master
> (Actually letting a shell for loop submit all this stuff for me.)
>
> If there are any URLs to be removed completely or at least not just HTTPSified:
> Just clearly say so and I'll *undo my change*.
> See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/27/64
>
> If there are any valid, but yet not changed URLs:
> See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/837
>
> If you apply the patch, please let me know.
>
> Sorry again to all maintainers who complained about subject lines.
> Now I realized that you want an actually perfect prefixes,
> not just subsystem ones.
> I tried my best...
> And yes, *I could* (at least half-)automate it.
> Impossible is nothing! :)
>
>
> LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0 | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0 b/LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0
> index 6e89ddeab187..fd71308fd2c3 100644
> --- a/LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0
> +++ b/LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Apache License
>
> Version 2.0, January 2004
>
> -http://www.apache.org/licenses/
> +https://www.apache.org/licenses/
>
> TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE, REPRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION
>
> --
> 2.27.0
>

You can't change the text of a license that comes from elsewhere. This
file is fine as-is.

thanks,

greg k-h