Re: SPDX tag and top of file comment cleanups for the loop driver

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-block
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:06:28PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Ted, does the SPDX tag match your original licensing decision back then,
> > or do we need to correct it?  Does the auto-converted tag on the loop.h
> > SPDX header (GPL1.0 or later with syscall exception) make sense, or
> > should that have been GPL2 only with syscall exception?
> 
> I think you've removed the loop.h in the patch series, so it shouldn't
> matter what the tag would be for loop.h, right?  In any case, GPLv2
> only was certainly the intent at the time.

Well, there were two loop.h files - drivers/block/loop.h gets removed
in this series, but include/uapi/linux/loop.h stays.
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