From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39D5718A6AB; Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753717011; cv=none; b=Fa+OSU/NYmUkb6TU2/ui03v9npKck2sUmRtYVshAahDeWJdMVHwqUDeh0stt68atWMYDCKqwXyQ2UDQCsh16OSk3ukaHCA8wSLfuUjRT2V9Nxv2PnXA+DFNkgo6L7rREQha+NW6jTSwQcPGfUIVFxwnYcafIfQeT7npZ07HHPaA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1753717011; c=relaxed/simple; bh=T9Rk8C7dgDxt331TwhGl1nlTO3RMnYHqoxe463mEWKc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=eoLAKy5QdNgzUEI7fjXTMj8HBrE7F4uW8eiaKShHrHpfaThRVVYI6P/1Ot/Mq64mA2749jqo1kyvhXoyMdYZcrxGkwGDoniRreQYiw1B14BDRAMzAhi960AyqPEBqgr2RXAWOghG8ITqELXCfV6M/pX1sI+CESX4uNbAuI06rW4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=cOsD8Mwo; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="cOsD8Mwo" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 198E4C4CEE7; Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:36:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1753717010; bh=T9Rk8C7dgDxt331TwhGl1nlTO3RMnYHqoxe463mEWKc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=cOsD8MwoycCgbAJAh8on/efwIiHwsxbkQXmwzfjCTAIQqhYKTqOGPKX6Xyhg72IRG WL5cVel7fsMlApwDqCLfdyjCwTqkN66LwvZV/ehyz0fAQhcbRW2tkYatB+RhDbhIJa 4Z4FySIPQHBO87Qnk9Bb9V0dVGsLgj5JfgKIQrEw= Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:36:47 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Thomas Huth Cc: Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86/kvm/ioapic: Remove license boilerplate with bad FSF address Message-ID: <2025072819-bobcat-ragged-81a7@gregkh> References: <20250728152843.310260-1-thuth@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250728152843.310260-1-thuth@redhat.com> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > From: Thomas Huth > > The Free Software Foundation does not reside in "59 Temple Place" > anymore, so we should not mention that address in the source code here. > But instead of updating the address to their current location, let's > rather drop the license boilerplate text here and use a proper SPDX > license identifier instead. The text talks about the "GNU *Lesser* > General Public License" and "any later version", so LGPL-2.1+ is the > right choice here. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth > --- > v2: Don't use the deprecated LGPL-2.1+ identifier If you look at the LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 file, it says to use: SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ as the kernel's SPDX level is older than you might think. Also, doesn't the scripts/spdxcheck.pl tool object to the "or-later" when you run it on the tree with this change in it? thansk, greg k-h