Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: dts: sama5d{2,4}: use SPDX-License-Identifier

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>]

On 03/04/2019 10:08:52-0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 18:22 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > The X11 license text [1] is explicitly for the X Consortium and has a
> > couple of extra clauses. The MIT license text [2] is actually what the
> > current DT files claim.
> []
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/sama5d2.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/sama5d2.dtsi
> []
> > @@ -1,46 +1,9 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT)
> 
> Nope - NAK...
> 
> That's not the correct identifier.
> It's not GPL-2.0, it's either GPL-2.0+ or GPL-2.0-or-later
> 
> Check this for all submitted patches in this series.
> 

Ah, correct, I carefully checked the X11/MIT thingy but not the GPL,
I'll recheck. Thanks for catching that.

> >  /*
> >   * sama5d2.dtsi - Device Tree Include file for SAMA5D2 family SoC
> >   *
> >   *  Copyright (C) 2015 Atmel,
> >   *                2015 Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com>
> > - *
> > - * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms
> > - * of the GPL or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this dual
> > - * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a
> > - * whole.
> > - *
> > - *  a) This file 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; either version 2 of the
> > - *     License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > 
> 

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