Re: [PATCH 1/4] dt-bindings: power: Add Actions Semi S900 SPS

[Andreas FÃrber]

Am 27.06.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Daniel Thompson:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:11:17PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
>>> Question: Should it still be GPL-2.0+ or the new GPL-2.0-or-later?
>>
>> I think GPL-2.0+ is fine.
> 
> So... when I saw this I did wonder why one would knowly choose to use a
> deprecated license identifier (https://spdx.org/licenses/ ).
> 
> However running `git diff v4.17..v4.18-rc1` through some filters does
> indicate that GPL-2.0+ is the more popular choice by 256 to 0! Doesn't
> mean you couldn't break the mould though ;-).

The kernel.org documentation does not mention the new ones yet.

I checked under LICENSES/ - preferred/GPL-2.0.txt actually lists both
identifiers, and checkpatch.pl did not complain about either.

So for my personal patches I'll be going with the new identifier, unless
I hear of reasons not to.

Cheers,
Andreas

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