Re: [PATCH 00/10] Treewide GPL SPDX conversion (love letter to Didi)

Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-12T00:41:16Z

On Thu, 11 May 2023 20:33:56 +0700 Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> I trigger this patch series because of Didi's GPL full name fixes
> attempt [1], for which all of them had been NAKed. In many cases, the
> appropriate correction is to use SPDX license identifier instead.
>
> Often, when replacing license notice boilerplates with their equivalent
> SPDX identifier, the notice doesn't mention explicit GPL version. Greg
> [2] replied this question by falling back to GPL 1.0 (more precisely
> GPL 1.0+ in order to be compatible with GPL 2.0 used by Linux kernel),
> although there are exceptions (mostly resolved by inferring from
> older patches covering similar situation).

Should you be CCing linux-spdx@ on this?