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LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText

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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 <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-01 15:33:23 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent f338e77383
commit ebf1bafd09
2 changed files with 13 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -3856,6 +3856,14 @@ sub process {
"Misplaced SPDX-License-Identifier tag - use line $checklicenseline instead\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for disallowed SPDX file tags
if ($rawline =~ /\bSPDX-.*:/ &&
$rawline !~ /\bSPDX-License-Identifier:/ &&
$rawline !~ /\bSPDX-FileCopyrightText:/) {
WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"Disallowed SPDX tag\n" . $herecurr);
}
# line length limit (with some exclusions)
#
# There are a few types of lines that may extend beyond $max_line_length: