On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:58 PM Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi. > > > The comment block of scripts/basic/fixdep.c says as follows: > > > * Author Kai Germaschewski > * Copyright 2002 by Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@xxxxxx> > * > * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms > * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference. > > > > It does not explicitly mention the version of GPL. > > In this case, I think the corresponding SPDX tag > is GPL-1.0+ instead of GPL-2.0 > > Is this correct? > > > > There could be another problem regarding of this. > > > > Commit 9f7ef9854e80 copied scripts/basic/fixdep.c > to tools/build/fixdep.c, but it ripped off its license term. > > Later, it was tagged as GPL-2.0 by b24413180 > > See 'git show b24413180 -- tools/build/fixdep.c' > > > Maybe tools/build/fixdep.c should be corrected to GPL-1.0+ ? I am not an expert of software license, but a little more thought about this if scripts/basic/fixdep.c is GPL-1.0+, Probably, either of the following is correct. Must tools/build/fixdep.c inherit GPL-1.0+ from script/basic/fixdep.c ? or Can you choose the license (any in GPL-1.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, GPL-1.0+, GPL-2.0+) for tools/build/fixdep.c at your opinion? (In this case, Jiri Olsa, the author of commit 9f7ef9854e800) If the latter is correct, we do not need to fix tools/build/fixdep.c -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
