linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] license-rules.rst and LICENSES: Use only spdx version 3 with -only and -or-later

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Message-ID: <20180817065216.GA11170@lst.de>
Date:   Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:52:16 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Herring <rob.herring@...aro.org>,
        Jonas Oberg <jonas@...e.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] license-rules.rst and LICENSES: Use only spdx version
        3 with -only and -or-later

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:26:03AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> The current linux-kernel source git tree has a mixture of the deprecated
> spdx version 2 and the newer version 3 uses.
> 
> Update the process/license-rules.rst file to show only the version 3 style
> and use only the version 3 styles in LICENSES.

IF we _only_ document version 3 style we also need to switch every file
over to use it, otherwise we end up in a situation with undocumented tags
again.  So if we want to apply your patch we aso need to run your included
script.  With a run of that script:

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>