linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: meson: use SPDX license identifiers consistently

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Date:   Tue, 15 May 2018 10:58:30 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Carlo Caione <carlo@...one.org>,
        Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
Cc:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: meson: use SPDX license identifiers consistently

Quoting Jerome Brunet (2018-05-15 09:42:29)
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c
> index f7ab5b1db342..ac0743cd0f2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c
> @@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+

This is GPL2 or later.

>  /*
>   * Copyright (c) 2017 AmLogic, Inc.
>   * Author: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
> - * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> - * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
> - * more details.
> - *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
> - * this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

But this looks like GPL2 only because there isn't an "or later" part of
the text. Is it intentional to relicense to GPL2+ instead of GPL2 only?
If so, please add that into the commit text.