Re: License discripency in files,the words

Greg KH
2020-06-10T11:07:43Z

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 04:11:45PM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> Greg/Linus/Andrew,
>
> I am not sure how trivial it is , but if it is , please ignore it.
>
> I got this on Linus's tree :
>
> ~/git-linux/linux [master|✔]
> 15:52 $ git grep "GPL-2.0-only" . | wc -l
> 14734
>
> And ..
>
> ~/git-linux/linux [master|✔]
> 15:55 $ git grep "GPL-2.0" . | wc -l
> 49530
>
>
> Well, aren't we out of uniformity??? Or is there any specific trace on
> character? I don't know either.

Please read LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 for the list of valid SPDX lines
for that specific license.

In short, both are fine, don't worry about it :)

thanks,

greg k-h