I just saw this and have not followed the entire thread from the
beginning, but if you are unsure if a given license text to something on
the SPDX License List, I highly recommend using the SPDX License-diff
browser extension / add-on (for Chrome or Firefox) - once you have that,
you can simply highlight a text in your browser window and it will tell
you if it matches or how far off it is if not.
If a license is NOT a match to anything on the SPDX License List, please
submit it to the SPDX legal team here:
https://tools.spdx.org/app/submit_new_license/ (and preferably then tag
me in the Github issue, my Github ide is @jlovejoy ) Please make sure to
include that it's in the LInux kernel and a link to where you found it.
More about requesting a new license be added to the SPDX License List
can be found here:
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/request-new-license.md
Thanks!
Jilayne
SPDX legal team co-lead
On 1/21/22 10:17 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 6:03 AM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> wrote:
Several files are missing SPDX license identifiers.
Following files are given the following SPDX identifier based on the comments
in the top of the file:
include/asm/ibmebus.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR OpenIB
BSD */
[...]
platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c:// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR
OpenIB BSD
"OpenIB BSD" is not a defined SPDX identifier. There is an SPDX
identifier "Linux-OpenIB"
https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-OpenIB.html
but I believe that is not a match to what's in these files
(specifically, the wording of the disclaimer), rather I believe what
you want here is BSD-2-Clause, but you may want to check that.
Richard
