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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jules Octave <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: mt7621-dma: add SPDX GPL-2.0 or later version license identifier
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 21:01:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190301200104.GA19353@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOuULM6W1PtuaysLX7=z+nXhXnM35Wyz65Gx++urmrLJcbGe2w@mail.gmail.com>

A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?


http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:38:58PM +0000, Jules Octave wrote:
> Some people say  GPL-2.0+ has deprecated (
> https://www.drupal.org/project/lightning/issues/2938910 ) but I will

That is drupal, not the kernel.

> change it to GPL-2.0+.
> I tried looking  on  https://spdx.org/licenses/

That's a nice place to read as well, but we are using an "older" version
of spdx.

Always read the in-kernel documentation, we write it for a reason :)

Look at Documentation/process/license-rules.rst please, it shows that
you should use the "GPL-2.0+" marking.

thanks,

greg k-h


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-01 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-01 15:17 [PATCH 0/2] staging: mt7621-dma: SPDX license cleanups Jules Irenge
2019-03-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: mt7621-dma: add SPDX GPL-2.0 or later version license identifier Jules Irenge
2019-03-01 15:39   ` Greg KH
2019-03-01 17:38     ` Jules Octave
2019-03-01 20:01       ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-02  0:15         ` [Outreachy kernel] " Jules Octave
2019-03-02  6:30           ` Julia Lawall
2019-03-02  7:29             ` Jules Octave
2019-03-02  7:36               ` Julia Lawall
2019-03-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: mt7621-dma: remove license boilerplate text Jules Irenge

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