Re: [Batch 1 - patch 12/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_208.RULE

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, Jun 06 2022 at 16:11, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:58 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> Based on the normalized pattern:
>>
>>     this program is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>>     under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as
>>     published by the free software foundation  this program is distributed
>>     in the hope that it will be useful all express or implied conditions
>>     representations and warranties including any implied warranty of
>>     merchantability fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement
>>     are disclaimed except to the extent that such disclaimers are held to
>>     be legally invalid see the gnu general public license for more details
>>     a copy of which can be found in the file copying included with this
>>     package
>
> I forget how we dealt with things like this in the initial large batch
> some years ago but I remember raising the concern that some bespoke
> license notices contained disclaimer language that was arguably
> materially different in some way from what is found in GPLv2 itself.
> This might be another example. I think in some such cases we at least
> considered preserving the nonstandard disclaimer language.

IIRC, there was no real conclusion aside of dealing with this later :)

One way would be to talk to the original author (if still reachable) and
ask for clarification/permission to remove it. In this case Broadcom.

Thanks,

        tglx