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RE: [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier
From: |
Taylor Simpson |
Subject: |
RE: [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Nov 2021 15:17:31 +0000 |
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com> On
> Behalf Of Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
> Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 5:02 AM
> To: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Taylor Simpson <tsimpson@quicinc.com>; Richard Henderson
> <richard.henderson@linaro.org>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Laurent Vivier
> <laurent@vivier.eu>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier
>
> On 11/4/21 10:06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >
> > When you say "manually add", can you confirm that you explicitly
> > inspected every license header yourself to validate that the reported
> > match truely is GPL-2.0+, before adding the SPDX tag.
> >
> > Adding licenses tags based merely on a 60% match, without doing human
> > inspection would be questionable.
>
> Yes I explicitly inspected every license error before manually add the tag,
> but
> I am human, so prone to errors, which is why peer review is important :)
This seems like more of a question for a lawyer to review than technical
reviewers.
I remember discussing this when I made the initial submission. At that time,
there wasn't a broad policy on this. Has that changed?
Thanks,
Taylor
Re: [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier, Warner Losh, 2021/11/09