Re: [PATCH 3/5] media: sunxi: Add A10 CSI driver

From: Thomas Petazzoni
Date: Tue Nov 13 2018 - 09:47:18 EST


Hello,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:13:09 -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:

> > Actually, LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 has GPL-2.0-or-later
> > as a valid license:
> >
> > Valid-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> >
> > Personally I very much prefer GPL-2.0-or-later since I think it is
> > much clearer.
>
> I saw feedback from Greg to use the SPDX style from
> Documentation/process/license-rules.rst.
>
> Please check:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/10/232

According to https://spdx.org/licenses/, i.e the reference SPDX site,
GPL-2.0-or-later is the right thing to use, and GPL-2.0+ is
"deprecated". But apparently Greg's feedback is "let's not used the
SDPX style, as we don't want to change this all over".

Best regards,

Thomas
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