On 11/02/2025 14:29, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Tue Feb 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM CET, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 11/02/2025 13:02, André Draszik wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2025-02-11 at 11:57 +0000, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>>>> And then I shall s/MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");/MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");/
>>>> everywhere as "GPL" indicates [GNU Public License v2 or later].
>>>
>>> No, please don't, see Documentation/process/license-rules.rst.
>> For the rest of suggestions here I also recommend rereading docs. I
>> don't get why we need to change "GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause", but maybe I
>> miss some docs. Whatever SPDX recommends is irrelevant if kernel
>> recommends for example something else, so be sure you make it aligned
>> with actual kernel preference.
>
> Unfortunately, ``Documentation/process/license-rules.rst`` and
> ``LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0`` are not in 'sync', but I guess that's
> (potentially) a discussion for another ML.
>
> TL;DR: ``license-rules.rst`` says "GPL-2.0" while the license file
> allows both.
What exactly is there not in sync? To me it shows the preferred GPL-2.0,
over GPL-2.0-only.
LICENSES has licenses and all SPDX tags. license-rules for
simplification uses only some and the ones there could be understood as
preferred. Probably this should be changed first.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
