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([2a02:8108:85c0:57c8:bc68:3d44:305d:951f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x12-v6sm30777376wmd.32.2018.10.28.06.22.40 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Which SPDX Identifier for files without explicit GPL version To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <406c69c1-43fd-f821-b74b-a1399ed636e9@gmail.com> <20181028112728.GD8826@kroah.com> From: Michael Straube Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:22:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181028112728.GD8826@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/28/18 12:27 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:04:06AM +0100, Michael Straube wrote: >> Hi, >> >> which GPL version should be used in SPDX Identifiers for files that >> are GPL licensed but do not mention any version? It is not clear to >> me after reading license-rules.rst. >> >> For example: >> >> /****************************************************************************** >> * Copyright(c) 2008 - 2010 Realtek Corporation. All rights reserved. >> * >> * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT >> * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or >> * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for >> * more details. >> * >> * The full GNU General Public License is included in this distribution in the >> * file called LICENSE. > > Perhaps look up what version of the GPL that was originally contained in > the tarball that this driver was bundled with? I think that should be > on their website somewhere... > > If not, it's v1, not a good thing, but all we have to go on. Also, try > emailing: > >> * Contact Information: >> * wlanfae > > That address :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Ah, there is a file 'license' in the root directory of this driver (rtl8192e) that I overlooked. It contains GPLv2. So v2 applies to all files with the above shortened boiler plate? Thanks, Michael