[PATCH 1/1] doc: replace invalid GPL-2.0+ SPDX identifier

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 20:41:40 CET 2024


Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 08:58:51AM -0600, Tom Rini kirjoitti:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:34:59AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> 
> > GPL-2.0-or-later is the correct spelling of the SPDX specifier.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
> > ---
> 
> I would reword this to say that GPL-2.0-or-later is the now accepted
> SPDX tag for this license and that GPL-2.0+ has been deprecated for some
> time. And please follow-up with a checkpatch.pl patch to ERROR on using
> the old and not new license. All that said, if you can do the commit
> message I can update everything excluding upstream dts files in one go.

+1 here. There is nothing wrong with the GPL-2.0+. It's just old variant.
FWIW, Linux kernel is okay to use it even in a new code.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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