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
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 ?