Re: [patch 16/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 16

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On Sun, 19 May 2019, Allison Randal wrote:

> On 5/20/19 1:42 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 8:27 PM Steve Winslow
> > <swinslow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> For this one, the additional disclaimer paragraph at the bottom
> >> (beginning with "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY...") appears to come
> >> from a BSD-style license, not GPL. I'm not sure this disclaimer should
> >> be deleted and replaced by just a standard GPL-2.0-or-later tag.
> > 
> > I am inclined to agree with Steve. It's materially different from the
> > disclaimers in GPLv2 itself and could also indicate the remnants of an
> > otherwise vanished BSD license notice.
> 
> Would you be comfortable replacing the first three paragraphs of license
> notice and disclaimer, which are clearly GPLv2 or later, and just
> leaving the snowflake final paragraph disclaimer text in the file?
> 
> There isn't enough of a BSD license here to make this clearly dual licensed.

Let's skip that one for now. I talk to the author what the intention was
with that.

Thanks,

	tglx



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