Hi Greg and fellow SPDX curators 😉 One of our developers came to me with a question/complaint: ----- I'm trying to use libtraceevent -- a library for parsing Linux ring buffer format. Source code is located in the Linux kernel repository at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/lib/traceevent The thing confusing me is that almost all of the files are licensed LGPL-2.1 but the Makefiles and some .c files (some of the plugins of this library), are licensed GPL-2.0. ----- Checking the sources, I find three C files: tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_cfg80211.c tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_scsi.c tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_xen.c I see that the "GPL-2.0" SPDX tag was added in commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd with the clear title: "License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license" (2017-11-01, by Greg). Shame on the original contributors for not putting license info in their files... but I am inclined to believe that they would have been meant to be LGPL, as the rest of the library and the other plugins. Could it be that the "everything without a license is GPL" rule should have exempted libtraceevent? More importantly, shall we update the three files to be "LGPL-2.1-only" ? -- zvr Intel Deutschland GmbH Registered Address: Am Campeon 10-12, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Gary Kershaw Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau Registered Office: Munich Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928
