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

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Tue Nov 07 2017 - 12:21:25 EST


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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