From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:10:28 +0200 From: Roland Hieber Message-ID: <20210331101028.p2xtnyzgbwa4yabe@pengutronix.de> References: <20210326210647.8648-1-rhi@pengutronix.de> <20210330110855.efi4twmm5ybbub2u@pengutronix.de> <2fee9810-d20a-dea2-9eb8-9fd5c2ef07f0@pengutronix.de> <20210330133040.srgjieqjojrgkaio@pengutronix.de> <0254ee44-047f-abe9-af4a-43cdfde0dccd@pengutronix.de> <20210330155357.ubi6qfqi7uyy2c4j@pengutronix.de> <3286977b-06a6-539d-f36f-35385671acca@pengutronix.de> <20210331100305.e4klllzxx4p7yhxo@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210331100305.e4klllzxx4p7yhxo@pengutronix.de> Subject: Re: [OSS-Tools] [PATCH dt-utils 1/4] treewide: add SPDX identifiers to files with GPL-2.0-or-later license List-Id: Pengutronix Public Open-Source-Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: oss-tools-bounces@pengutronix.de Sender: "OSS-Tools" To: Ahmad Fatoum Cc: oss-tools@pengutronix.de, Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= 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 -- Roland Hieber, Pengutronix e.K. | r.hieber@pengutronix.de | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ OSS-Tools mailing list OSS-Tools@pengutronix.de