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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:14:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1fto3pwo0.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1561077341.7970.47.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:35:41 -0700")


James,

> There's two problems.  One is simple terminology: the
> Documentation/process/licence-rules.rst say:
>
> GPL-2.0 means GPL 2 only
> GPL-2.0+ means GPL 2 or later
>
> I believe RMS made a fuss about this and he finally agreed to 
>
> GPL-2.0-only
> GPL-2.0-or-later

Looks like there are tons of the old style SPDX tags in the kernel. Is
there going to be a treewide conversion to the new tag format?

Just wondering how much to clean up given that the files Christoph
touched only constitute a subset of the old style tags found under
drivers/scsi.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-21  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22  0:08 linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree Stephen Rothwell
2019-05-28  1:43 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-06-20 23:59   ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-06-21  0:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-21  0:34       ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-06-21  0:35       ` James Bottomley
2019-06-21  0:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-06-21  1:14         ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2019-06-21  6:21           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-22  0:11 Stephen Rothwell
2019-01-24  3:58 Stephen Rothwell
2019-01-14  2:48 Stephen Rothwell
2019-01-14  5:42 ` 黃清隆
2017-11-06  3:48 Stephen Rothwell
     [not found] <20140124130547.323ce38edc8dedfd653534b7@canb.auug.org.au>
2014-01-24  2:22 ` James Bottomley
2012-07-20  0:32 Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-20  7:29 ` James Bottomley
2012-07-20 16:31   ` Linus Torvalds

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