Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Better statistics and exclude handling | Date | Mon, 16 May 2022 20:52:52 +0200 |
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On Mon, May 16 2022 at 15:14, Max Mehl wrote: > Thank you for picking up the effort to add license (and perhaps also > copyright) info to all files in the Kernel.
Adding copyright notices retroactively is not going to happen ever. That's just impossible.
>> The exclude of files and directories is hardcoded in the script which makes >> it hard to maintain and the information cannot be accessed by external tools. > > Unfortunately, excluding files (i.e. not adding machine-readable > license/copyright information to it) would also block reaching full > compliance with the REUSE best practices. Have you considered making > them available under GPL-2.0-only or a license similar to public domain > [^2]?
The LICENSE directory is already handled by spdxcheck as the license information is read from there. And no, we cannot add a GPL-2.0-only identifier to all of the files under the LICENSE directory for obvious reasons.
license-rules.rst is not longer a problem as all incarnations have a proper SPDX identifier today.
Thanks,
tglx
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