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 Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:03:05PM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 07:31:24PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> > If Zlib says "This notice may not be removed or altered from any
> > source distribution.", I interpret this as meaning that we need to ship
> > the full text as part of the source distribution and only a
> > SPDX-License-Identifier that can be looked up on a website somewhere doesn't
> > suffice.
> 
> Yes. Hmm. GPL says a similar thing in Clause 1 ("keep intact all the
> notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty").
> When thinking about it, I'd rather keep the original comment headers
> intact and only add an SPDX license tag, and I don't understand why
> these notices were removed in Linux when Linux moved to SPDX
> identifiers. I also didn't find any reasoning on this.

Only this entry in the REUSE FAQ, which recommends to leave the
copyright notices intact.
https://reuse.software/faq/#edit-copyright-and-licensing

 - Roland

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