From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: License info
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 22:08:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180403200823.GA18939@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fcdc6adf-6ced-7b0f-9196-e07bf9049e6e@gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:53:29PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
>
> > What is your position regarding license information? Should the standard GPL-V2
> > boiler plate be replaced with "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in wireless files?
>
> "GPL-2.0" tag is deprecated [0] .
>
>
> It should be used:
> for GNU General Public License v2.0 only: "GPL-2.0-only"
> for GNU General Public License v2.0 or later: "GPL-2.0-or-later"
Please read Documentation/process/license-rules.rst. We are sticking
with the "old" SPDX identifiers for now as they changed after we already
started marking up the kernel source tree.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-03 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-03 19:53 License info Xose Vazquez Perez
2018-04-03 20:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2018-03-29 18:22 Larry Finger
2018-04-03 9:32 ` Kalle Valo
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