linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers

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Message-ID: <Ybs8eJOBwxw/Tj3o@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:17:44 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@...du.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid
 identifiers

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 08:30:14PM +0800, Cai Huoqing wrote:
> On 16 12月 21 13:17:35, 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..b73f9b6230f5 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-only
> >  Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
> > +Valid-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
> >  SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1.html
> The URL is deprecated, do we need to update it together.

No.

> The same, GPL-2.0, LGPL-2.0

Again, no.  We are using an older version of the SPDX specification,
this is fine.

thanks,

greg k-h