> -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philippe.mathieu.da...@gmail.com> On > Behalf Of Philippe Mathieu-Daudé > Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 5:02 AM > To: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > Cc: Taylor Simpson <tsimp...@quicinc.com>; Richard Henderson > <richard.hender...@linaro.org>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Laurent Vivier > <laur...@vivier.eu> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-user: Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX license identifier > > On 11/4/21 10:06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > When you say "manually add", can you confirm that you explicitly > > inspected every license header yourself to validate that the reported > > match truely is GPL-2.0+, before adding the SPDX tag. > > > > Adding licenses tags based merely on a 60% match, without doing human > > inspection would be questionable. > > Yes I explicitly inspected every license error before manually add the tag, > but > I am human, so prone to errors, which is why peer review is important :)
This seems like more of a question for a lawyer to review than technical reviewers. I remember discussing this when I made the initial submission. At that time, there wasn't a broad policy on this. Has that changed? Thanks, Taylor
