[libvirt PATCH 00/20] Use SPDX-License-Identifier

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:22:40PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> Replace the license blurb in every single file with:
>   SPDX-License-Identifier: <human-readable-string>
> Coincidentally, this is also machine readable.

I've requested legal clarification previously on whether doing this
kind of replacement is possible. The response I got was that it is
NOT acceptable unless you have the permission of all copyright
holders on the source files. The terms of the GPL require that
license notices are not modified. Replacing this header with the
SPDX tag counts as modification, even though its essentially
just a different way of presenting the same information.

NB, the fact that the kernel did such a conversion is not on its
own, a sufficient ok for doing it in libvirt, as we don't see
the prep work/analysis/discussions that led into the kernel's
change.

So NACK to this change.


Regards,
Daniel
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