Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 18:12 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more
> appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed.  On the
> other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add
> checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and
> copyright.  That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed.

I find no value in this tag.  I think it should be discouraged.

How is it different or more useful than a typical Copyright or © symbol ?