From ebf1bafd090790704ba54c032de299fccd90a9da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 15:33:23 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Joe Perches Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl') 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: -- cgit v1.2.3