On Dec 8, 2017, at 03:34 , Kate Stewart <kstewart@...> wrote:

Some of you have already noticed that this started in 2016

but as of 4.14, we had a major breakthrough and cleanup

of all the files without a license reference all had SDPX identifiers

added to them. 

There are some good writeups of the work emerging.

LWN has an excellent summary with links to more references at:

https://lwn.net/Articles/739183/

There's also a good blog by one of the kernel developers 

from Samsung explaining how to add the identifiers as well

that came out last week.

https://blogs.s-osg.org/linux-kernel-license-practices-revisited-spdx/

Some other excellent documentation that has emerged

including how to integrate SPDX one liners into a project 

is available at:  https://reuse.software/practices/  which the linux kernel

developers have consulted and worked with for the kernel. 

Thanks, Kate

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