Re: [patch 19/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_347.RULE

Richard Fontana
2022-06-06T20:14:55Z

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 4:11 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 the gnu general public license as published by the
> free software foundation version 2 of the license and no later version
> this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but
> without any warranty without even the implied warranty of
> merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose good title or non
> infringement see the gnu general public license for more details you
> should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
> with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 51
> franklin st fifth floor boston ma 02110-1301 usa the full gnu general
> public license is included in this distribution in the file called
> copying

Another example of a possibly significant deviation from GPLv2 in the
disclaimer language.

Richard