Re: [PATCH v4] LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 01/03/2026 15:33, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more
> appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed.  On the
> other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add
> checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and
> copyright.  That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed.
> 
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Other way would be to remove SPDX-FileCopyrightText from existing files
> and disallow this, but one way or another we should be explicit about
> it.  Otherwise people will be sending more of these and each maintainer
> would need to make their own call.

Hey folks, any further comments here?

Is there a preference that this tag should be instead removed from the
kernel and checkpatch should not allow it?

Honestly, I don't care about the way but I do care of having it
defined/codified.

Best regards,
Krzysztof