[U-Boot] [PATCH] SPDX: document dual license notation

[Stephen Warren]

On 10/08/2013 10:23 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stephen,
> 
> In message <52546F78.40300 at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>>
>>> +Ideally, the license terms of all files in the source tree should be
>>> +defined by such License Identifiers; in no case a file can contain
>>> +more than one such License Identifier.
>>
>> I assume "one such License Identifier" here is intended to mean: a
>> source line prefixed with the words "SPDX-License-Identifier:". However,
>> to me "one such License Identifier" would actually refer to the
>> "GPL-2.0+" part of the line, since that's what actually identifies the
>> license. The other text simply introduces a list of license identifiers.
>> That would then conflict with the rest of the patch that goes on to
>> explicitly state that multiple licenses are allowed.
>>
>> In other words, I think that text can be confusing. I think you need to
>> add "line", "list" or "set" to the end of the sentence to make it
>> unambiguous.
> 
> Could you please suggest such a phrase?  Thanks.

Sigh. As I said: In other words, I think that text can be confusing. I
think you need to add "line", "list" or "set" to the end of the sentence
to make it unambiguous.