From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE33A26FA5A; Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753717821; cv=none; b=e42UywJE3l1HOu8K0jV2l9Iex/S/84TncMAdHyCF5TQId1EZY3ETiDTSv0+Z0toWvPtgakHrxYwuW6DIDZqUEZwkAeAAU5ew4qt5q/KYRZ3HB2gKm1hiDk75Sk9Yxudw0JrtMC3DH2ZPpEX4uANEisLhbb9hs34OLE0FIH564OM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753717821; c=relaxed/simple; bh=NpmjvvwAGghE+Galaz/VMYkCBIf4ORxsafb1hYhmUQI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=TjTACASNdjaonJ3IHxq4CDYeyE5y5A02GKyjrXTufBurzrOQR2RpEA/48g227pW5HS81vc6BwdPDopE1Fl/DQAY9HewPCCnOQt88zFTf6KPYbVoa6jGdIwV1wySNdLSvzsRzSLtin+kp5eTrwX1z8wLDy873R1H9N2B1lxARTqk= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=RPtz71t5; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="RPtz71t5" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06C26C4CEEF; Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:50:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1753717820; bh=NpmjvvwAGghE+Galaz/VMYkCBIf4ORxsafb1hYhmUQI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=RPtz71t56FHe7QEtuG3DOUi3FHVitmIG1bpqrGUKLNKlTyNH8ZsufdJslD0yVijMX gvaw+b+RHbDRX2rfHzAVsyBU8K/jkqZvNbXItinZVXSxF45HSadrhafGB+6+kL19SP FD+g2+UqGoNF1IYhq0dqiIlj+QTXE180o3AGlSxY= Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:50:17 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Thomas Huth Cc: Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86/kvm/ioapic: Remove license boilerplate with bad FSF address Message-ID: <2025072818-revoke-eggnog-459a@gregkh> References: <20250728152843.310260-1-thuth@redhat.com> <2025072819-bobcat-ragged-81a7@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2025072819-bobcat-ragged-81a7@gregkh> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:36:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > From: Thomas Huth > > > > The Free Software Foundation does not reside in "59 Temple Place" > > anymore, so we should not mention that address in the source code here. > > But instead of updating the address to their current location, let's > > rather drop the license boilerplate text here and use a proper SPDX > > license identifier instead. The text talks about the "GNU *Lesser* > > General Public License" and "any later version", so LGPL-2.1+ is the > > right choice here. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth > > --- > > v2: Don't use the deprecated LGPL-2.1+ identifier > > If you look at the LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 file, it says to use: > SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ > > as the kernel's SPDX level is older than you might think. > > Also, doesn't the scripts/spdxcheck.pl tool object to the "or-later" > when you run it on the tree with this change in it? Ugh, sorry, no, it lists both, the tool should have been fine. I was reading the text of the file, not the headers at the top of it. My fault. Anyway, I'll let this go through the subsystem tree for it, after the merge window is closed, as that's the best way for it to flow forward. thanks, greg k-h