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Message-ID: <dac95ea92cf3334318cf95d133553c8b7d1110b5.camel@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:22:54 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Rob Herring <rob.herring@...aro.org>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] license-rules.rst and LICENSES: Use only spdx
version 3 with -only and -or-later
On Wed, 2018-08-22 at 13:12 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:47:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Perhaps it's better to stick to a single SPDX version style for
> > all kernel files.
> >
> > Right now, there are already several -only and -or-later uses.
> >
> > $ git grep -P 'SPDX-License-Identifier.*(?:-or-later|-only)'| wc -l
> > 144
> >
> > So perhaps a patch and a tool to do the reverse conversion:
>
> No. Any tool which does anything useful just has to understand both
> 2.0 and 3.0 naming. They're aliases for each other, that's all.
But that same tool would have to be updated if ever
yet-another spdx version appears.
So it'd probably be better to support just 1 version.
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