linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:14:07 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree


James,

> There's two problems.  One is simple terminology: the
> Documentation/process/licence-rules.rst say:
>
> GPL-2.0 means GPL 2 only
> GPL-2.0+ means GPL 2 or later
>
> I believe RMS made a fuss about this and he finally agreed to 
>
> GPL-2.0-only
> GPL-2.0-or-later

Looks like there are tons of the old style SPDX tags in the kernel. Is
there going to be a treewide conversion to the new tag format?

Just wondering how much to clean up given that the files Christoph
touched only constitute a subset of the old style tags found under
drivers/scsi.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering