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 - 13:30:48 EST


On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 05:25:17PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > 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 :)
>
> You'd still be wrong.

Ok, fine, I don't want to argue nuances, there's lots of exceptions to
the rule for stuff like this, let's just say that "most" code is
copyrightable and leave it at that :)

And that's not what this thread is about, no copyrights got changed at
all with this pull request.

thanks,

greg k-h