On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:24 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:42:09PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > 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 ;) > > If you want to take this change because of sharing with other projects, > that's fine, but do not say that the reason you are making this change > is because it is somehow required by our use of SPDX and the updated > version. Just say that you want to share it with other projects :) Thank you. Updated patch is here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11464109/ Best Regards, Rajat > > thanks, > > greg k-h
