Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: dw-hdmi: Switch to SPDX identifier

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Hi Lucas,

(CC'ing Greg)

On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 18:02:23 EEST Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 22.05.2018, 13:37 +0300 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> > On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 12:29:21 EEST Lucas Stach wrote:
> >> Am Sonntag, den 20.05.2018, 14:05 -0300 schrieb Fabio Estevam:
> >>>> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
> >>> 
> >>> Adopt the SPDX license identifier headers to ease license compliance
> >>> management.
> >>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
> >>> 
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c | 7 +------
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>> 
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
> >>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c index ec8d000..3bc62d5
> >>> 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-hdmi.c
> >>> @@ -1,15 +1,10 @@
> >>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> >> 
> >> The GPL-2.0+ tag is deprecated, please use GPL-2.0-or-later instead. 
> >> 
> >> Same comment applies to some other SPDX conversion patches from you.
> > 
> > Documentation/process/license-rules.rst still mentions GPL-2.0+, not
> > GPL-2.0- or-later. Until the documentation gets updated, I think we
> > should stick to GPL-2.0+.
> 
> The (what I would consider canonical) description of the license [1]
> has a pretty fat DEPRECATED tag attached to it. I would prefer not to
> pull in patches to convert the license stuff to a tag that's already
> deprecated.

This topic has been discussed before, and Greg asked to stick to the 
identifiers defined in Documentation/process/license-rules.rst. As he started 
the whole SPDX initiative, I'm inclined to just do as he said :-) I don't have 
a strong opinion on this topic personally, but I think that consistency is 
important.

> [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0+.html

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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