linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] ARM: dts: meson6: update with SPDX Licence identifier

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Date:   Wed, 3 Jul 2019 16:37:59 +0200
From:   Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr>
To:     Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
Cc:     linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Jagan Teki <jagan@...rulasolutions.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] ARM: dts: meson6: update with SPDX Licence
 identifier

On 27/05/2019 15:38, Neil Armstrong wrote:

> While the text specifies "of the GPL or the X11 license" the actual
> license text matches the MIT license as specified at [0]
> 
> [0] https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi | 44 +----------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi
> index 65585255910a..2d31b7ce3f8c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi
> @@ -1,48 +1,6 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
>  /*
>   * Copyright 2014 Carlo Caione <carlo@...one.org>
> - *
> - * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms
> - * of the GPL or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this dual
> - * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a
> - * whole.
> - *
> - *  a) This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> - *     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
> - *     published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
> - *     License, or (at your option) any later version.

You seem to have been so focused on the X11 vs MIT issue that you might
have overlooked the GPL issue?

You selected "GPL-2.0", while the text called for "GPL-2.0+"
(GNU General Public License v2.0 or later)

(Pointed out by Maxime in a similar patch.)

Regards.