linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only

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Message-ID: <026b38ff947e338a468567dfd20fbde1419bb094.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:29:19 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Collabora Kernel ML <kernel@...labora.com>,
        groeck@...omium.org, Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...omium.org>,
        Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        Bernardo Perez Priego <bernardo.perez.priego@...el.com>,
        Daniel Campello <campello@...omium.org>,
        Enrico Granata <egranata@...omium.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org>,
        Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@...omium.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Yicheng Li <yichengli@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only

On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra
> <enric.balletbo@...labora.com> wrote:
> > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only
> > tag.
> 
> Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old
> and new variants are okay.

If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license
style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org.

https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html

Deprecated
This license has been deprecated since license list version 3.0.
Full name

GNU General Public License v2.0 only
Short identifier

GPL-2.0