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From: "Csókás Bence" <csokas.bence@prolan.hu>
To: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, <imx@lists.linux.dev>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@solid-run.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-hummingboard: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:52:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d951db9-80a5-4209-ada5-6bba854e994d@prolan.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250709-hb-dts-lic-v2-1-a168bd9d24bd@prolan.hu>

Hi,

On 2025. 07. 09. 9:28, Bence Csókás wrote:
> Replace verbatim license text with a `SPDX-License-Identifier`
> 
> The comment header mis-attributes this license to be "X11", but the
> license text does not include the last line "Except as contained in this
> notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or
> otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
> without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.". Therefore,
> this license is actually equivalent to the SPDX "MIT" license (confirmed
> by text diffing).
> 
> On top, half of the files have the fragment "either version 2 of the
> License" for some reason, and not follow up with "or any later version".
> So the resulting SPDX license is still "GPL-2.0-only".
> 
> Cc: Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@solid-run.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@prolan.hu>

So, Rabeeh, Russell, what do you think? Is there something else I need 
to change?

Bence


      reply	other threads:[~2025-08-25 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-09  7:28 [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-hummingboard: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier Bence Csókás
2025-08-25 20:52 ` Csókás Bence [this message]

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