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Date:   Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:52:21 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        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 22:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> > 
> > So, fix documentation in the kernel then.
> 
> That said, NAK to the patch as long as in-kernel documentation says it's valid.

Maintainers and authors should get to chose whatever
license text they prefer with the assent of the licensors.

A NAK here by you doesn't make much sense to me.

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl  drivers/platform/chrome/
Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT)
Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT)
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)

$ git log --no-merges --format="%an <%ae>" drivers/platform/chrome | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
     53 Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>
     23 Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>
     16 Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org>
     15 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
      9 Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
      9 Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>
      8 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@...labora.co.uk>
      6 Shawn Nematbakhsh <shawnn@...omium.org>
      5 Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@...ev.co.uk>
      5 Daniel Campello <campello@...omium.org>
      4 Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...gle.com>
      4 Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>
      4 Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
      4 Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@...omium.org>
      4 Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
      4 Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@...omium.org>
      4 Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
      4 Bill Richardson <wfrichar@...omium.org>
      4 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
      3 Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
      3 Stephen Barber <smbarber@...omium.org>
      3 Raul E Rangel <rrangel@...omium.org>
      3 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
      3 Olof Johansson <olofj@...omium.org>
      3 Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>
      3 Enrico Granata <egranata@...omium.org>
      3 Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
      2 Jett Rink <jettrink@...omium.org>
      2 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
      2 Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
      2 Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
      2 Gene Chen <gene.chen@...el.com>
      2 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
      2 Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@....at>
      2 Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...omium.org>
      1 YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
      1 Yilun Lin <yllin@...omium.org>
      1 Yicheng Li <yichengli@...omium.org>
      1 Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
      1 Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
      1 Wenkai Du <wenkai.du@...el.com>
      1 Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
      1 Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@...omium.org>
      1 Vic Yang <victoryang@...gle.com>
      1 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
      1 Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@...omium.org>
      1 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
      1 Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
      1 Simon Que <sque@...omium.org>
      1 Sergiu Cuciurean <sergiu.cuciurean@...log.com>
      1 Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@...omium.org>
      1 Salvatore Bellizzi <lkml@...pia.net>
      1 Rushikesh S Kadam <rushikesh.s.kadam@...el.com>
      1 Robin Schroer <sulamiification@...il.com>
      1 Ravi Chandra Sadineni <ravisadineni@...omium.org>
      1 Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>
      1 Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>
      1 Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
      1 Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@...il.com>
      1 Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
      1 Mohammed Habibulla <moch@...omium.org>
      1 Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
      1 Michael Mullin <masmullin@...il.com>
      1 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
      1 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
      1 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
      1 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
      1 Kirill Smelkov <kirr@...edi.com>
      1 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
      1 kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
      1 kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
      1 Joseph Lo <josephl@...dia.com>
      1 Jon Flatley <jflat@...omium.org>
      1 Jeffery Yu <jefferyy@...dia.com>
      1 Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
      1 Hyungwoo Yang <hyungwoo.yang@...el.com>
      1 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
      1 Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>
      1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
      1 Geliang Tang <geliangtang@....com>
      1 Emil Karlson <jekarlson@...il.com>
      1 Emilio López <emilio.lopez@...labora.co.uk>
      1 Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
      1 Clinton Sprain <clintonsprain@...il.com>
      1 Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>
      1 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
      1 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
      1 Charlie Mooney <charliemooney@...omium.org>
      1 Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>
      1 Bernardo Perez Priego <bernardo.perez.priego@...el.com>
      1 Ben Dooks (Codethink) <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
      1 Archana Patni <archana.patni@...el.com>
      1 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
      1 Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>


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