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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 03:54:53 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com>, Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@...sung.com>, Mark Greer <mgreer@...malcreek.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-nfc@...ts.01.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 2/7] nfc: nci: replace GPLv2 boilerplate with SPDX On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 12:46 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 08/10/2021 12:33, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-10-07 at 15:30 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > > Replace standard GPLv2 only license text with SPDX tag. > > > > Nak > > > > This is actually licenced with GPL-2.0-or-later > > > > > diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/uart.c b/net/nfc/nci/uart.c > > [] > > > @@ -1,20 +1,8 @@ > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > > [] > > You may use, redistribute and/or modify this File in > > > - * accordance with the terms and conditions of the License, a copy of which > > > - * is available on the worldwide web at > > > - * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt. > > > > See the actual text at the old link which includes: > > > > This program 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. > > > Thanks Joe for checking this. Isn't this conflicting with first > paragraph in the source file: > > This software file (the "File") is distributed by Marvell > InternationalLtd. under the terms of the GNU General Public License > Version 2, June 1991(the "License"). > > This part does not specify "or later". It doesn't need to as it calls out the exact license which by specific reference includes the "or later". And this is a nominal 'weakness' in the spdx license referencing system which relies on contents of files in the LICENSE directory.
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