Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] clk: sunxi-ng: add support for DE2 CCU

Rob Herring
2017-04-20T22:36:31Z

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 09:02:53AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 08:08:40PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>> > diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/clock/sun8i-de2.h b/include/dt-bindings/clock/sun8i-de2.h
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 000000000000..982c6d18c75b
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/include/dt-bindings/clock/sun8i-de2.h
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
>> > +/*
>> > + * Copyright (C) 2016 Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
>> > + *
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>>
>> You can use SPDX tag here:
>>
>> SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT)
>
> I don't think you ever addressed Russell's comment about what would
> happen to the license if and when the SPDX doc is changed or goes
> offline?

Frankly, it's a copyright holders decision what they want to use. SPDX
is already used in the kernel. Look in the USB subsystem. SPDX is not
going anywhere and is endorsed by companies with well known legal
depts. If people want to argue about it still, then I've got better
things to do.

Rob
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