[U-Boot] [RFC] SPDX License text updates

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:06:07 -0500
Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> In another thread Felix Brack brought up that as of version 3.0 of
> SPDX, there's a number of deprecated tags (see
> https://spdx.org/licenses/) and that we're using at least one of them.
> 
> Specifically, "GPL-2.0+" should be "GPL-2.0-or-later".
> 
> Now, we have a few options here:
> - Deprecated isn't removed.  SPDX specifically says the old links
> shall remain valid, etc, etc.  We could continue to use "GPL-2.0+",
> etc and not have to change (literally) 8000 files.  This will also
> keep us in line with what the Linux kernel currently does.  I also
> have no idea, nor have I looked to see if that's going to change.
> - Allow both old and new.  Both are valid, the newer form allows for
>   easier tooling and more precise management of options that I'm not
>   sure apply to our use cases.
> - Switch to the new tags.  A few hour I imagine of playing around with
>   sed and then manual fixups and I can probably convert all the
> existing cases to the new syntax (we have some DTS files for example
> with (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) which would become (GPL-2.0-or-later OR MIT).
> But then we need some tooling to make checkpatch.pl at least noisy
> about unconverted and to get everyone into the habit of changing and
> so forth.
> 
> At this point in time I'm leaning towards the first, and as is often
> the case, watching what the kernel does.

+1

>  Thoughts / comments?
> Thanks!
> 



Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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