Re: [git pull] drm fixes for v4.15-rc3

From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Fri Dec 08 2017 - 18:35:39 EST


Linus,

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This pull is a bit larger than I'd like but a large bunch of it is
>> license fixes, AMD wanted to fix the licenses for a bunch of files
>> that were missing them,
>
> Oh Christ, couldn't they have just added the one-liner SPDX tags
> rather than doing that crazy "new 22 line boiler plate garbage to
> fifteen random Makefiles"?
>
> I pulled it, but let's try to reign in the crazy "lets add filler
> lines" behavior, ok?
>
> Alex, can you talk to the AMD lawyers and ask them about just putting
> the SPDX line instead?
>
> Linus

You made my day! I shall add that every time someone sends a patch
with long legalese boilerplate instead of a shorter SDPX tag, there is
a kitten that dies somewhere.
--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne, your friendly kernel licensing decraper