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

From: Enric Balletbo i Serra
Date: Fri Jun 26 2020 - 04:33:03 EST


Hi,

On 26/6/20 6:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:06:03PM +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.
>
> They are just fine, leave it alone, the in-kernel LICENSES/ files show
> the valid SPDX tags that the kernel allows at this point in time.
>

I guess my confusion comes from seeing patch series doing this change in the ML
instead of really reading the documentation. If it's clear, and as per in-kernel
docs, it is, that a GPL-2.0 tag is a GPL-2.0 only license, that's fine with me.

> This is not worth the churn at all, once we get to complete coverage of
> all kernel files, then you can worry about trivial things like this.
>

I don't have special interest on land this if it's clear (was not really clear
to me before the discussion). So, I'll drop that patch from my queue.

Thanks for the feedback,
Enric

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>