linux-kernel - Re: License discripency in files,the words

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Message-ID: <20200610110735.GA1893040@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:07:35 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LinuxKernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: License discripency in files,the words

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 04:11:45PM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> Greg/Linus/Andrew,
> 
> I am not sure how trivial it is , but if it is , please ignore it.
> 
> I got this on Linus's tree :
> 
> ~/git-linux/linux [master|✔]
> 15:52 $ git grep "GPL-2.0-only" . | wc -l
> 14734
> 
> And ..
> 
> ~/git-linux/linux [master|✔]
> 15:55 $ git grep "GPL-2.0" . | wc -l
> 49530
> 
> 
> Well, aren't we out of uniformity??? Or is there any specific trace on
> character? I don't know either.

Please read LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 for the list of valid SPDX lines
for that specific license.

In short, both are fine, don't worry about it :)

thanks,

greg k-h