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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb•com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@intel•com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"nhorman@redhat•com" <nhorman@redhat•com>,
	"sassmann@redhat•com" <sassmann@redhat•com>,
	"jogreene@redhat•com" <jogreene@redhat•com>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation•org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>
Subject: Re: [net-next] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel drivers
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:38:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321093848.GV14085@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521594560.15055.10.camel@intel.com>

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:09:20PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > When the kernel maintainers decide to switch to V3.0 of the SPDX list,
> > the doc will be updated and then Joe's script could be applied at once
> > to update the past.
> 
> I am fine with changing my patch back to v2.6 SPDX ids, as long as Joe's
> script in the future won't touch the Intel wired LAN drivers, since we need
> to retain copyright on several files through out our drivers.

Changing SPDX comment lines should never change the "copyright" of a
file.  If you have questions about stuff like that, please talk to your
corporate lawyers, they will be glad to talk to you all about what
defines "copyright" :)

thanks,

greg "I talk to too many lawyers..." k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20 17:13 [net-next] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel drivers Jeff Kirsher
2018-03-20 17:41 ` Joe Perches
2018-03-20 17:52   ` Jeff Kirsher
2018-03-20 20:48     ` Allan, Bruce W
2018-03-20 21:01       ` Joe Perches
2018-03-20 23:46       ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-03-21  1:09         ` Jeff Kirsher
2018-03-21  1:14           ` Joe Perches
2018-03-21  9:38           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-03-21  0:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-21  0:59   ` Jeff Kirsher

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