Hi Fabio, On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later >>> >>> According to Documentation/process/license-rules.rst the format should >>> be like this instead: >>> >>> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ >> >> According to https://spdx.org/licenses/ it should be what I did above. > > Previous advice I saw was to follow the format described in > Documentation/process/license-rules.rst > > Greg/Philippe, > > Any inputs on this matter? > > Thanks IMHO we should always treat and use the Documentation/process/license-rules.rst as the reference and not SPDX proper who moves at its own pace and evolves its specs and license ids independently of where we stand in the kernel. If this is not right Doc patches are welcomed! In this is very specific case this has been discussed on list a few times. If I recall correctly Thomas also had an opinion on this... So you are correct and this should be for now: // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne