Re: [patch 01/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 1

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On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 03:51:31PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):
> 
>   this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
>   it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
>   the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
>   your option any later version this program is distributed in the
>   hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
>   the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
>   purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
>   should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
>   with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
>   51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma 02110 1301 usa
> 
> 
>   this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
>   it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
>   the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
>   your option [no]_[pad]_[ctrl] any later version this program is
>   distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
>   warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
>   fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
>   for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
>   public license along with this program if not write to the free
>   software foundation inc 51 franklin street fifth floor boston ma
>   02110 1301 usa
> 
> extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
> 
>   GPL-2.0-or-later
> 
> has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 176 file(s).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

<snip>

Commenting only on the first instance of this in the series:

> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx51-eukrea-cpuimx51.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx51-eukrea-cpuimx51.dtsi
> @@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later

I thought we were sticking with the "GPL-2.0+" string for this?

I know we support both in the scripts and the license parsing, is it
just a "up to the sender" as to what they prefer?

thanks,

greg k-h



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