Re: [PATCH 5/6] staging:iio:ad2s90: Add SPDX license identifier

From: Matheus Tavares Bernardino
Date: Fri Nov 09 2018 - 18:20:07 EST


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:13 PM Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Matheus,
>

Hi, Fabio

> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:01 PM Matheus Tavares
> <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch adds the SPDX GPL-2.0-only license identifier to ad2s90.c,
> > which solves the checkpatch.pl warning:
> > "WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c
> > index 949ff55ac6b0..f439da721df8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c
> > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>
> This should be:
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

Hm, but it seems that the identifier "GPL-2.0" is deprecated, look:
https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html. It has been updated to
"GPL-2.0-only" in license list v3
(https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html). Is there some other
reason to use the deprecated "GPL-2.0" that I'm not aware of?

Thanks,
Matheus