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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 2025 18:40:12 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsdfoundation.org>,  FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Adopting SPDX for SBOM generation
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2025, 5:42 PM Rob Norris <robn@despairlabs.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Aug 2025, at 2:28 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>  Yes, there are exceptions, and we can handle
> those on a case by case basis (eg ZFS could update the license
> metadata by hand to be the right CDDL variant, etc).
>
>
> Incidentally, this year we (OpenZFS) started some work on getting license
> tags onto everything and enforcing them in CI, see
> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17001
>
> There's still a fair bit of work to do to get our house in order and I
> bang on it every couple of months as time permits, but at least it's not
> getting worse.
>
> I'll be happy to align OpenZFS with anything more comprehensive that
> FreeBSD want to do, so I'll be watching this project with interest.
>

What tool did you use to change those 3200-odd files? We have 150k files
last I checked...

I'll look at the spdx checker as well...

Warner


> Cheers,
> Rob.
>

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<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 7, 2025, 5:42 PM Rob Norris &lt;<a href="mailto:robn@despairlabs.com">robn@despairlabs.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>On Thu, 7 Aug 2025, at 2:28 AM, Warner Losh wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="m_1261148609288730469qt"><div><span style="background-color:rgb(27,30,32)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(27,30,32)">Yes, there are exceptions, and we can handle</span></div><div>those on a case by case basis (eg ZFS could update the license</div><div>metadata by hand to be the right CDDL variant, etc). <span style="background-color:rgb(27,30,32)"> </span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, this year we (OpenZFS) started some work on getting license tags onto everything and enforcing them in CI, see <a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17001" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17001</a></div><div><br></div><div>There&#39;s still a fair bit of work to do to get our house in order and I bang on it every couple of months as time permits, but at least it&#39;s not getting worse.</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;ll be happy to align OpenZFS with anything more comprehensive that FreeBSD want to do, so I&#39;ll be watching this project with interest.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What tool did you use to change those 3200-odd files? We have 150k files last I checked...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I&#39;ll look at the spdx checker as well...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Rob.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>

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