Re: [PATCH] gpio: uapi: use the preferred SPDX license identifier

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> GPL-2.0 license identifier is deprecated, let's use the preferred
> identifier: GPL-2.0-only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi Kent, Greg,
> 
> I started working on making libgpiod licensing reuse-compliant and noticed
> that the reuse-tool is telling me that the GPL-2.0 SPDX identifier in the
> GPIO uapi header is deprecated. Since I'm required to copy the header
> verbatim into libgpiod's repository, I think we need to fix that at source
> first.
> 
>  include/uapi/linux/gpio.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
> index e4eb0b8c5cf9..3e01ededbf36 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */

No, there is no need to convert the kernel to the "latest" spdx level,
when we started out there was no "-only" nonsense (hint no other license
has that crud), and "GPL-2.0" is a totally valid summary of the license.

So please don't go changing it all in-kernel, that way lies madness.
Let's finish fixing up ALL kernel files before worrying about what SPDX
"version" we are at.

thanks,

greg k-h