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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Nov 07 2017 - 12:12:03 EST


On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 05:07:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:39:40 +0100
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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".
>
> You'd be wrong on that. Lots of things are not copyrightable.

Ok, fair enough, but code is not one of those :)

thanks,

greg k-h