Re: [PATCH] LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText
Joe Perches <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:40:11 -0800
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.workflows |
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On Wed, 2026-01-07 at 18:12 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more > appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed. On the > other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add > checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and > copyright. That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed. I find no value in this tag. I think it should be discouraged. How is it different or more useful than a typical Copyright or © symbol ?