linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/9] ARM: S3C24XX: Fix invalid SPDX identifier

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Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:27:59 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
        Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] ARM: S3C24XX: Fix invalid SPDX identifier

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:11AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> GPL-1.0 is not part of the valid identifier list and as its meaning is GPL
> version 1.0 only this would be incompatible with the kernel license.
> 
> As this code was included into the kernel, assume its GPL-1.0+
> 
> Fixes: 84b2170109e4 ("ARM: S3C24XX: Add SPDX license identifiers")

Before that commit the file just said GNU General Public License and
referred to the COPYING file.  Which to me suggests it is at best
GPL-2.0+ if not GPL-2.0.

Hopefully the original author can still be reached to clear this up.