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From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
To: "valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] vmw_balloon: update copyright message
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:38:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5151EA1B-D065-44D1-995C-47B791F574E1@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81730.1529094918@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

at 1:35 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:33:46 -0000, Nadav Amit said:
> 
>>>> In addition, updating the year and adding a license tag.
> 
>>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> 
>>> You still have a lot of boiler-plate text in here that can be removed.
>>> Please do so.
> 
>> But what else do you want me to remove? This is a standard GPL license. If I
>> am required to remove the GPL license, I will have to run checks to ensure
>> it is appropriate.
> 
> You mean the checks that you should have done when you stuck the SPDX
> tag on the file?
> 
> (Hint: Think of the SPDX tag as a '#include gplv2.license.blurb" :)

I matched the SPDX to the license we have, tut I don’t know whether my
company regards an SPDX tag as a sufficient means to protect copyrights,
which allows to remove all the rest of the text.

Just trying not to get fired for a stupid reason ;)


  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-15 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-13 13:54 [PATCH v2 0/7] vmw_balloon: addressing bugs and issues Nadav Amit
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] vmw_balloon: fix inflation of 64-bit GFNs Nadav Amit
2018-06-14  5:23   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-14  5:41     ` Nadav Amit
2018-06-14  5:50       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-14  5:56         ` Nadav Amit
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] vmw_balloon: do not use 2MB without batching Nadav Amit
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] vmw_balloon: VMCI_DOORBELL_SET does not check status Nadav Amit
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] vmw_balloon: fix VMCI use when balloon built into kernel Nadav Amit
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] vmw_balloon: remove inflation rate limiting Nadav Amit
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] vmw_balloon: update copyright message Nadav Amit
2018-06-14  5:24   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-14  5:33     ` Nadav Amit
2018-06-14  5:48       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-15 20:35       ` valdis.kletnieks
2018-06-15 20:38         ` Nadav Amit [this message]
2018-06-16  8:03           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-13 13:54 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] vmw_balloon: update maintainers list Nadav Amit

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