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

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Jun 25 2020 - 15:34:16 EST


On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0

So, fix documentation in the kernel then.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko