Am 27.06.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Daniel Thompson: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:11:17PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: >>> Question: Should it still be GPL-2.0+ or the new GPL-2.0-or-later? >> >> I think GPL-2.0+ is fine. > > So... when I saw this I did wonder why one would knowly choose to use a > deprecated license identifier (https://spdx.org/licenses/ ). > > However running `git diff v4.17..v4.18-rc1` through some filters does > indicate that GPL-2.0+ is the more popular choice by 256 to 0! Doesn't > mean you couldn't break the mould though ;-).
The kernel.org documentation does not mention the new ones yet. I checked under LICENSES/ - preferred/GPL-2.0.txt actually lists both identifiers, and checkpatch.pl did not complain about either. So for my personal patches I'll be going with the new identifier, unless I hear of reasons not to. Cheers, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
