Re: [Batch 8 patch 15/23] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 166

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On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 9:51 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 09:37:50AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
[...]

> > Red Hat copyrights can be treated as GPL-2.0-or-later, if that is desired.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Are you sure you can do that?  If the code was based on a work that was
> from GPL-2.0-only you can't, right?  :)

Not sure I agree, but maybe not worth getting into on this list, or in
this context anyway.

> Please, let's not get into the "oh, you can change the license of all
> files from company X" business with regards to these semi-automated
> conversions.  That's just going to add work and make things more
> complex.
>
> Feel free to relicense your company's files at a later point in time,
> just submit a patch to the kernel like any other developer :)

Okay, fair enough! Henceforth I will not comment on GPLv2-only notices
associated with Red Hat copyrights in these reviews.

Richard



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