Re: [OSS-Tools] [PATCH dt-utils 1/4] treewide: add SPDX identifiers to files with GPL-2.0-or-later license

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

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Hi Ahmad,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> On 30.03.21 15:30, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 01:22:26PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> On 30.03.21 13:08, Roland Hieber wrote:
> >>> Uwe, could I get a Reviewed-by from you for these four patches? :-)
> >>
> >> We must still carry the full license texts in the project (cf. Linux
> >> LICENSES/). This is missing here, no?
> > 
> > well, it depends on what you want to achieve. If you want to become SPDX
> > conformant this is indeed necessary. IMHO the conversion from several
> > different boilerplate license specifications to a single line is
> > beneficial even if the full licenses are not (yet) in the project.
> 
> If the code says that the license terms need to be distributed along
> with the software, you are violating the license terms, if you don't
> abide by this. This is unrelated to SPDX-Conformance.

If distributing the full license text is required, this was a problem
already before, wasn't it?

Best regards
Uwe

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