On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Heiko Carstens
<heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 10:19:28PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> +3. Syntax:
>> +
>> + A <SPDX License Expression> is either an SPDX short form license
>> + identifier found on the SPDX License List, or when multiple licenses
>> + apply, an expression consisting of keywords "AND", "OR", and "WITH"
>> + separating SPDX short form license identifiers surrounded by "(", ")".
>
> Here it is stated that SPDX identifiers using the keyword WITH must be
> surrounded by braces.
Heiko:
Darn! you have eagle eyes! Good catch. Thanks you++
Thomas:
The parens are not required in SPDX license identifiers and they only
(weakly) make sense when using expressions with OR and AND and not
for WITH expressions (which is a mouthful... don't we all love a bit
of boolean chat?).
Therefore I suggest to update the text above this way:
A <SPDX License Expression> is either an SPDX short form license
identifier found on the SPDX License List, or the combination of two
SPDX short form license identifiers separated by "WITH" when a license
exception applies. When multiple licenses apply, an expression
consists of keywords "AND", "OR" separating sub-expressions and
surrounded by "(", ")" .
>> + // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note)
>> + // SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note)
>
> Just like this example.
Thomas, this should become:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note
>> + File format examples::
>> +
>> + SPDX-Exception-Identifier: Linux-syscall-note
>> + SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-syscall-note.html
>> + SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+, GPL-1.0+, LGPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1, LGPL-2.1+
>> + Usage-Guidance:
>> + This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses
>> + to mark user-space API (uapi) header files so they can be included
>> + into non GPL compliant user-space application code.
>> + To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the
>> + identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag:
>> + SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH Linux-syscall-note
>
> But here it comes without braces.
It is correct and therefore no changes are needed here with the
proposed updates from above
>> + Exception-Text:
>> + Full exception text
>> +
>> + ::
>> +
>> + SPDX-Exception-Identifier: GCC-exception-2.0
>> + SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/GCC-exception-2.0.html
>> + SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0, GPL-2.0+
>> + Usage-Guidance:
>> + The "GCC Runtime Library exception 2.0" is used together with one
>> + of the above SPDX-Licenses for code imported from the GCC runtime
>> + library.
>> + To use this exception add it with the keyword WITH to one of the
>> + identifiers in the SPDX-Licenses tag:
>> + SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX-License> WITH GCC-exception-2.0
>
> Here as well.
>
> The whole kernel now got SPDX-License-Identifiers that look like this:
>
> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
>
> So this looks inconsistent to me, or did I miss something?
You did not miss anything, and you spotted this right on.
The SPDX-License-Identifier are correct, only the docs needs minor fixing.
Thanks again!
--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne
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