Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:13:00 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] samples: replace outdated permission statement with SPDX identifiers |
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 00:43:46 +0100 Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> wrote:
> But Greg, people are listening to you. Please don't give advice in > directions that are not clearly correct for Linux. You know you could > have simply ack'd the initial mistake-fix in that case. It wouldn't have > hurt anybody.
Sigh, it wasn't my intent to get Greg in trouble.
Martin... please don't blame Greg here. What's going on (IMO) is that you've stumbled into something that we have just now begun to figure out. We very much *want* to rip out all that boilerplate, but we don't yet have a consensus on the proper way to do it. We haven't really even had the discussion yet. You've just had the poor luck to wander in at the wrong time and become part of that discussion.
I'll confess that, when I saw your first patch, it crossed my mind to answer much like Greg did. But Greg always gets there first :)
The files that you are touching mostly have listed copyright holders in them. Should you feel like putting a bit more energy into this, one thing to do could be to copy them on a new posting of the patch and ask for acks. Assuming you get them, we should be able to clean up a bit of cruft in a way that's clearly supported by the copyright holders.
Thanks,
jon
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