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 <[email protected]> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> > --- > > 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
