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

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 30.03.21 15:30, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 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.

Nothing in the license headers or in the GPL or in the Zlib license says
that we have to distribute the license text along with the source code.
On the contrary, there are even some versions of GPL license headers
that have a clause "if you didn't a license text along with the
software, write to the FSF at $ADDRESS".

But it is needed for REUSE [1] compliance, so I intend to move COPYING
into LICENSES/ nevertheless, and add the Zlib too. Thanks for catching
this.

[1]: https://reuse.software/

 - Roland

> > So I don't regret having given my Review-tags.
> 
> Reviewing is fine, but before applying license text removal, the full
> license texts need to be located in full somewhere in the source tree.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ahmad
> 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Uwe
> > 
> 
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