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

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

On 30.03.21 16:00, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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?

Hmm, indeed. GPL-2.0 license text exists in COPYING. Zlib license text
doesn't exist in full.

> 
> Best regards
> Uwe

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