From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lukasz Majewski Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:33:06 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] SPDX License text updates In-Reply-To: <20180122170607.GL32220@bill-the-cat> References: <20180122170607.GL32220@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <20180122223306.12f62111@jawa> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:06:07 -0500 Tom Rini 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: