Re: [PATCH v1] drivers: net: convert drivers to spdx

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:14:29PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Montag, den 03.12.2018, 19:38 +0100 schrieb Oleksij Rempel:
> >  /*
> >   *  Atheros AR71xx built-in ethernet mac driver
> >   *
> > @@ -5,10 +6,6 @@
> >   *  Copyright (C) 2008 Imre Kaloz <kaloz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >   *
> >   *  Based on Atheros' AG7100 driver
> > - *
> > - *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> > - *  under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
> > - *  by the Free Software Foundation.
> >   */
> 
> [snip]
> 
> And while I know that the Linux kernel still wants the GPL-2.0+ tag,
> I'm really not sure if we should use the deprecated tag in Barebox, or
> if it would better to go straight to the GPL-2.0-or-later tag.

GPL-2.0-or-later is canon since version 2.0 of the SPDX standard [0]. I
don't see any reason to stick with an outdated standard if we're just
starting with it.

 - Roland

[0]: https://spdx.org/licenses/, section "Deprecated Licenses"

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