Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Jun 25 2020 - 15:29:32 EST


On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra
> <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only
> > tag.
>
> Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old
> and new variants are okay.

If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license
style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org.

https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html

Deprecated
This license has been deprecated since license list version 3.0.
Full name

GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Short identifier

GPL-2.0