[v2,00/10] Treewide GPL SPDX conversion and cleanup (in response to Didi's GPL full name fixes)

  I trigger this patch series as a response to Didi's GPL full name fix
patches [1], for which all of them had been NAKed. In many cases, the
appropriate correction is to use SPDX license identifier instead.

Often, when replacing license notice boilerplates with their equivalent
SPDX identifier, the notice doesn't mention explicit GPL version. Greg
[2] replied this question by falling back to GPL 1.0 (more precisely
GPL 1.0+ in order to be compatible with GPL 2.0 used by Linux kernel),
although there are exceptions (mostly resolved by inferring from
older patches covering similar situation).

The series covers the same directories touched as Didi's ones, minus
Documentation/ (as should have been inferred by SPDX tags on respective
docs).

Changes since v1 ([3]):
  * Cc: additional original authors that are missed in v1
  * Pick up Reviewed-by: and Acked-by: tags from review
  * Fix spdxcheck and SPDX-related checkpatch warnings
  * Fix a few tag oversights.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=f%3A%22didi.debian%40cknow.org%22+AND+s%3A%22GPL%22+AND+NOT+s%3A%22Re%3A%22
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181028112728.GD8826@kroah.com/ 
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230511133406.78155-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com/

Bagas Sanjaya (10):
  agp/amd64: Remove GPL distribution notice
  mISDN: Replace GPL notice boilerplate with SPDX identifier
  net: bonding: Add SPDX identifier to remaining files
  net: ethernet: 8390: Replace GPL boilerplate with SPDX identifier
  net: ethernet: i825xx: Replace GPL boilerplate with SPDX identifier
  pcmcia: Add SPDX identifier
  drivers: staging: wlan-ng: Remove GPL/MPL boilerplate
  drivers: watchdog: Replace GPL license notice with SPDX identifier
  udf: Replace license notice with SPDX identifier
  include: synclink: Replace GPL license notice with SPDX identifier

 drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c               |  1 -
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_audio.c             |  4 +---
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_blowfish.c          |  4 +---
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_cmx.c               |  4 +---
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_core.c              |  3 +--
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_dtmf.c              |  4 +---
 drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_tones.c             |  4 +---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c            |  3 ++-
 drivers/net/bonding/bonding_priv.h         |  4 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/8390.h           |  2 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c           |  7 +------
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/axnet_cs.c       |  6 +++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/hydra.c          |  6 ++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c        |  5 ++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c        |  6 ++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mcf8390.c        |  4 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne.c             |  4 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ne2k-pci.c       |  8 +-------
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/pcnet_cs.c       |  5 ++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/smc-ultra.c      |  4 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/stnic.c          |  5 +----
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/wd.c             |  4 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/zorro8390.c      |  7 +------
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c        |  5 ++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/lasi_82596.c   |  5 ++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/lib82596.c     |  5 ++---
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c   |  4 +---
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h   |  4 +---
 drivers/pcmcia/bcm63xx_pcmcia.c            |  5 +----
 drivers/pcmcia/cirrus.h                    | 21 +------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/i82365.c                    | 22 +-------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/i82365.h                    | 21 +------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/o2micro.h                   | 21 +------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/pd6729.c                    |  3 +--
 drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_base.h               |  1 +
 drivers/pcmcia/ricoh.h                     | 21 +------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_generic.c            | 22 +-------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.c               | 22 +-------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/sa11xx_base.h               | 22 +-------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.c                | 22 +-------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/tcic.c                      | 22 +-------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/tcic.h                      | 21 +------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/ti113x.h                    | 21 +------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/topic.h                     | 23 +--------------------
 drivers/pcmcia/vg468.h                     | 21 +------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h          | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c      | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211conv.c       | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211conv.h       | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211hdr.h        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211ioctl.h      | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211metadef.h    | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211metastruct.h | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211mgmt.h       | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211msg.h        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c     | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.h     | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211req.c        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211req.h        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211types.h      | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211wep.c        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c         | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c       | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.h       | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mib.c        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c        | 21 -------------------
 drivers/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c              |  5 +----
 drivers/watchdog/ibmasr.c                  |  3 +--
 drivers/watchdog/m54xx_wdt.c               |  4 +---
 drivers/watchdog/max63xx_wdt.c             |  5 +----
 drivers/watchdog/moxart_wdt.c              |  4 +---
 drivers/watchdog/octeon-wdt-nmi.S          |  5 +----
 drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c               |  4 +---
 drivers/watchdog/rtd119x_wdt.c             |  2 +-
 drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c                 |  5 +----
 drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c          |  4 +---
 drivers/watchdog/ts4800_wdt.c              |  4 +---
 drivers/watchdog/ts72xx_wdt.c              |  4 +---
 fs/udf/balloc.c                            |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/dir.c                               |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/directory.c                         |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/ecma_167.h                          | 24 +---------------------
 fs/udf/file.c                              |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/ialloc.c                            |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/inode.c                             |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/lowlevel.c                          |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/misc.c                              |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/namei.c                             |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/osta_udf.h                          | 24 +---------------------
 fs/udf/partition.c                         |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/super.c                             |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/symlink.c                           |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/truncate.c                          |  6 +-----
 fs/udf/udftime.c                           | 19 +----------------
 fs/udf/unicode.c                           |  6 +-----
 include/linux/synclink.h                   |  3 +--
 include/net/bonding.h                      |  4 +---
 97 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 1000 deletions(-)


base-commit: ac9a78681b921877518763ba0e89202254349d1b
  

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 05:06:11PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> I trigger this patch series as a response to Didi's GPL full name fix
> patches [1], for which all of them had been NAKed. In many cases, the
> appropriate correction is to use SPDX license identifier instead.
> 
> Often, when replacing license notice boilerplates with their equivalent
> SPDX identifier, the notice doesn't mention explicit GPL version. Greg
> [2] replied this question by falling back to GPL 1.0 (more precisely
> GPL 1.0+ in order to be compatible with GPL 2.0 used by Linux kernel),
> although there are exceptions (mostly resolved by inferring from
> older patches covering similar situation).
> 
> The series covers the same directories touched as Didi's ones, minus
> Documentation/ (as should have been inferred by SPDX tags on respective
> docs).
>

I'm glad to take these types of changes through the SPDX tree, but
please break them up into smaller changes that show the justification
for each type of change in each subsystem, so that we can evaluate them
on an individual basis.  As you did here, you are lumping things
together only by the existance of the file in the tree, not by the
logical type of change happening, which isn't ok.

Also, you can send them as subsystem-specific series, so as to not have
to cross-post all of the changes all over the place.  I doubt the drm
developers care about ethernet driver license issues :)

thanks,

greg k-h
  

On 5/12/23 18:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> I'm glad to take these types of changes through the SPDX tree, but
> please break them up into smaller changes that show the justification
> for each type of change in each subsystem, so that we can evaluate them
> on an individual basis.  As you did here, you are lumping things
> together only by the existance of the file in the tree, not by the
> logical type of change happening, which isn't ok.
> 
> Also, you can send them as subsystem-specific series, so as to not have
> to cross-post all of the changes all over the place.  I doubt the drm
> developers care about ethernet driver license issues :)
> 

OK, thanks!