On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 09:15:55AM +0100, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> On Fri Nov 15, 2024 at 7:50 PM CET, Werner Sembach wrote:
> > From: Uwe Kleine-König <uklei...@kernel.org>
> >
> > TUXEDO has not yet relicensed a module for GPLv2+ as a reply from former
> > contributers the committed code under GPLv3+ is awaited.
>
> FYI, the SPDX identifier GPL-2.0+ is deprecated as of 2.0rc2 [1]. I think
> you'd
> need to use GPL-2.0-or-later [2] instead. And when using the SPDX identifier,
> you don't need to include the full text boilerplate in the source of every
> file
> as long as you include a LICENSE file or COPYRIGHT file with a copy of the
> license. One example upstream here [3] commit 1a59d1b8e05ea ("treewide:
> Replace
> GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156").
>
> [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0+.html
> [2] https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-or-later.html
> [3]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=v6.12-rc7&id=1a59d1b8e05ea
If you're convinced that "GPL-2.0-or-later" is the right string to use
(and the following somewhat agrees with you:
linux$ git rev-parse next/master
744cf71b8bdfcdd77aaf58395e068b7457634b2c
linux$ git grep -l -F 'SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+' next/master |
wc -l
3640
linux$ git grep -l -F 'SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later'
next/master | wc -l
9005
)
you can consider patching Documentation/process/license-rules.rst which
currently reads:
License identifiers for licenses like [L]GPL with the 'or later' option
are constructed by using a "+" for indicating the 'or later' option.::
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
Best regards
Uwe
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