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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 12:28:59 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Allan Nielsen <Allan.Nielsen@...rosemi.com>,
        razvan.stefanescu@....com, po.liu@....com,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next ] net: mscc: Add SPDX identifier

On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 21:23 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> ocelot_qsys.h is missing the SPDX identfier, fix that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>

Only the copyright holders should ideally be modifying
these and also removing other license content.

For instance, what's the real intent here?

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_qsys.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot_qsys.h
[]
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR MIT) */

GPL 2.0+ or 2.0?

>  /*
>   * Microsemi Ocelot Switch driver
>   *
> - * License: Dual MIT/GPL
>   * Copyright (c) 2017 Microsemi Corporation
>   */
>