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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LinuxKernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: License discripency in files,the words
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:07:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610110735.GA1893040@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200610104145.GA23025@Gentoo>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 04:11:45PM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> Greg/Linus/Andrew,
> 
> I am not sure how trivial it is , but if it is , please ignore it.
> 
> I got this on Linus's tree :
> 
> ~/git-linux/linux [master|✔]
> 15:52 $ git grep "GPL-2.0-only" . | wc -l
> 14734
> 
> And ..
> 
> ~/git-linux/linux [master|✔]
> 15:55 $ git grep "GPL-2.0" . | wc -l
> 49530
> 
> 
> Well, aren't we out of uniformity??? Or is there any specific trace on
> character? I don't know either.

Please read LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 for the list of valid SPDX lines
for that specific license.

In short, both are fine, don't worry about it :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-10 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-10 10:41 License discripency in files,the words Bhaskar Chowdhury
2020-06-10 11:07 ` Greg KH [this message]

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