linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers

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Message-ID: <YbsrwkfDb19cnHXT@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:06:26 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid
 identifiers

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:33:33PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Some files have been flagged with the new LGPL-2.1-or-later
> identifier which replace the original LGPL-2.1+ in the SPDX license
> identifier specification, but the identifiers are not mentioned as
> valid in the LGPL-2.1 license file.
> 
> Add it, together with the LGPL-2.1-only at the the license file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> ---
>  LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 b/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
> index 27bb4342a3e8..5feb8a6dbf15 100644
> --- a/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
> +++ b/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1
> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
>  Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1
>  Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
> +Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only
> +Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later

Can you sort it like we did in the GPL-2.0 file instead which clumps it
by functionality, not in alphabetical order?

thanks,

greg k-h