RE: [PATCH v11 2/2] testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Luis Chamberlain
> Subject: [PATCH v11 2/2] testing: use the copyleft-next-0.3.1 SPDX tag
> 
> Two selftests drivers exist under the copyleft-next license.
> These drivers were added prior to SPDX practice taking full swing
> in the kernel. Now that we have an SPDX tag for copyleft-next-0.3.1
> documented, embrace it and remove the boiler plate.
> 
> Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kuno Woudt <[email protected]>
> Cc: Richard Fontana <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Ciaran Farrell <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christopher De Nicolo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/test_kmod.c                          | 12 +-----------
>  lib/test_sysctl.c                        | 12 +-----------
>  tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh     | 13 +------------
>  tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh | 12 +-----------
>  4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/test_kmod.c b/lib/test_kmod.c
> index cb800b1d0d99..6423df9fa8dd 100644
> --- a/lib/test_kmod.c
> +++ b/lib/test_kmod.c
> @@ -1,18 +1,8 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
>  /*
>   * kmod stress test driver
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2017 Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> - * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or at your option any
> - * later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or
> - * when incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following
> - * license:
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms of copyleft-next (version 0.3.1 or later) as published
> - * at http://copyleft-next.org/.
>   */
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> 
> diff --git a/lib/test_sysctl.c b/lib/test_sysctl.c
> index 9a564971f539..e2a816d85ea2 100644
> --- a/lib/test_sysctl.c
> +++ b/lib/test_sysctl.c
> @@ -1,18 +1,8 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
>  /*
>   * proc sysctl test driver
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2017 Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> - * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or at your option any
> - * later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or
> - * when incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following
> - * license:
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms of copyleft-next (version 0.3.1 or later) as published
> - * at http://copyleft-next.org/.
>   */
> 
>  /*
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> index afd42387e8b2..7189715d7960 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
> @@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
>  #!/bin/bash
> -#
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
>  # Copyright (C) 2017 Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
>  #
> -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> -# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> -# Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or at your option any
> -# later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or
> -# when incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following
> -# license:
> -#
> -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> -# under the terms of copyleft-next (version 0.3.1 or later) as published
> -# at http://copyleft-next.org/.
> -
>  # This is a stress test script for kmod, the kernel module loader. It uses
>  # test_kmod which exposes a series of knobs for the API for us so we can
>  # tweak each test in userspace rather than in kernelspace.
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh
> index f50778a3d744..bfc54b422f25 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh
> @@ -1,16 +1,6 @@
>  #!/bin/bash
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR copyleft-next-0.3.1
>  # Copyright (C) 2017 Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
> -#
> -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> -# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> -# Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or at your option any
> -# later version; or, when distributed separately from the Linux kernel or
> -# when incorporated into other software packages, subject to the following
> -# license:
> -#
> -# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> -# under the terms of copyleft-next (version 0.3.1 or later) as published
> -# at http://copyleft-next.org/.
> 
>  # This performs a series tests against the proc sysctl interface.
> 
> --
> 2.35.1

Luis,
I think you know that I'm not a fan of copyleft-next.  However, having
said that, this conversion from boilerplate text to SPDX identifier line is very
welcome. Thanks for this change.

Reviewed-by: Tim Bird <[email protected]>
   -- Tim