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| author | Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com> | 2026-03-01 15:33:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-03-20 11:42:50 +0100 |
| commit | ebf1bafd090790704ba54c032de299fccd90a9da (patch) | |
| tree | df159b8f4853dd6731dbfe43d4ae2a5cdaa6d982 /scripts | |
| parent | f338e77383789c0cae23ca3d48adcc5e9e137e3c (diff) | |
LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e56374662ff7..2860f02a63e5 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -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: |