Re: [Batch 16 patch 16/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 241

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On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 09:14:38AM +0000, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 03.06.19 18:28, Allison Randal wrote:
> 
> > The pattern of an unversioned GPL with a reference to COPYING was under
> > discussion in item (3) of the thread "clarification on -only and
> > -or-later". We didn't reach a final conclusion on whether the
> > unversioned GPL (GPL-1.0-or-later) or COPYING (GPL-2.0-only) should
> > dominate, so we've been holding these for later review.
> 
> Is unversioned GPL (whatever that *really* supposed to mean :o) a
> valid license here ? (or could it become one for old code ?)

See the archives for details about this if you are curious.

> In that case, could we just state that in the spdx header and leave
> it aside, until somebody *really* needs to know it exactly ?

No.




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