[PATCH] bloblist: fix missing OR between licenses in the SPDX-License-Identifier
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Mon Sep 29 14:20:17 CEST 2025
Hi Max,
On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 03:59, Max Merchel -alt
<max.merchel at ew.tq-group.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Simon,
>
> Am 21.08.25 um 21:12 schrieb Tom Rini:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 02:00:11PM +0200, Max Merchel wrote:
> >
> >> Currently, the conditions of both licenses (GPL 2.0 and BSD-3-Clause) must
> >> be met. However, the original commit message states that the BSD-3-Clause
> >> was added to allow use of the files under a less restrictive license than
> >> GPL 2.0. Therefore, the required OR between the licenses has been added.
> >>
> >> While at it update the SPDX-License-Identifier to SPDX version 3.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 6c9e3d1f ("bloblist: Relicense to allow BSD-3-Clause")
> >> Signed-off-by: Max Merchel <Max.Merchel at ew.tq-group.com>
> >> ---
> >> common/bloblist.c | 2 +-
> >> include/bloblist.h | 2 +-
> >> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > So I'm going to defer this as the outcome of
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20250101195817.995321-1-sjg@chromium.org/
> > was that it's fine to relicense but a v2 with a differ commit message
> > is needed. And while I thought about doing the v2 myself now, I think
> > this is something that really must come from the author.
> >
> >
>
> What's your opinion on this?
Yes I agree that we should relicense to GPLv2+ only. If you'd like to
send a patch I can add a review tag.
Regards,
SImon
>
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> Max
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