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LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText
authorKrzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Sun, 1 Mar 2026 14:33:23 +0000 (15:33 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:42:50 +0000 (11:42 +0100)
commitebf1bafd090790704ba54c032de299fccd90a9da
treedf159b8f4853dd6731dbfe43d4ae2a5cdaa6d982
parentf338e77383789c0cae23ca3d48adcc5e9e137e3c
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>
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
scripts/checkpatch.pl