linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Add SPDX tags

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Date:   Thu, 8 Feb 2018 15:12:56 +0100
From:   Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Add SPDX tags

Bjorn,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:32 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org> wrote:
> b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to
> files with no license") added SPDX GPL-2.0 tags to several PCI files.
>
> These patches add SPDX tags to almost all remaining PCI files.  For ease of
> reviewing they're split into several cases (GPL v2, GPL v2+, etc.)

Better late than never: thank you ++ for this: my hero!

> One file (drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c) specifies only "GPL"; I don't
> know what to do with that, so I left it unchanged.

This is the way to go when there are ambiguities alright. One
interpretation of a bare GPL is GPL-1.0+ but the context matters a
lot!

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne