linux-kernel - Re: dt-bindings: Invalid SPDX License Identifier

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Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:21:22 +0800
From:   Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@...ogic.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <yixun.lan@...ogic.com>, Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-amlogic <linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: dt-bindings: Invalid SPDX License Identifier

Hi Thomas

On 04/23/18 03:14, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Yixun,
> 
> commit c16292578ffa437c77e17d5d3da20330a10b8a86
> Author: Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@...ogic.com>
> Date:   Fri Nov 10 16:46:49 2017 +0800
> 
>     dt-bindings: reset: Add bindings for the Meson-AXG SoC Reset Controller
>     
>     Add DT bindings for the Meson-AXG SoC Reset Controller include file,
>     and also slightly update documentation.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@...ogic.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>
> 
> Added the following SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD) in the
> middle of the top of file comment.
> 
> There are two problems with that:
> 
> 1) BSD is not a valid SPDX identifier. See https://spdx.org/licenses/
> 
>    You need to say which BSD variant you mean.
> 
> 2) Please put the License identifier to the place which is defined in
>    Documentation/process/licenses.rst, i.e. the first line of the dts file
>    and not to some random place.
> 

thanks for pointing this out

I will adjust the license to "GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-3-Clause" since this file
was copied from include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson-gxbb-reset.h
and it's a good idea to preserve the old license.

Yixun