Hi Greg, On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:20 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote: > > >From https://spdx.org/licenses/ > > > > "Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more > > explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later > > version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used > > Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0." > > > > Replace the > > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ > > with > > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */ > > > > Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx> > > If you like reading documentation for stuff like this, how about reading > LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 which shows that both examples are just fine > and we are going to stick with that for now as we don't want to do a > wholesale change at this point in time. > > In other words, we do not follow the 3.0 version of the SPDX spec as we > think it's pretty silly :) coreboot however does follow SPDX 3.0 and would like to be able to consume this file without relaxing their license checks. I do not think we need wholesale update, but is there reason to not update this particular file? I am not following SPDX development, so that's why you got pulled in ;) Thanks. -- Dmitry
