linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] Treewide GPL SPDX conversion (love letter to Didi)

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Date:   Fri, 12 May 2023 16:07:33 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Treewide GPL SPDX conversion (love letter to Didi)

On 5/12/23 07:41, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 2023 20:33:56 +0700 Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> I trigger this patch series because of Didi's GPL full name fixes
>> attempt [1], for which all of them had been NAKed. In many cases, the
>> appropriate correction is to use SPDX license identifier instead.
>>
>> Often, when replacing license notice boilerplates with their equivalent
>> SPDX identifier, the notice doesn't mention explicit GPL version. Greg
>> [2] replied this question by falling back to GPL 1.0 (more precisely
>> GPL 1.0+ in order to be compatible with GPL 2.0 used by Linux kernel),
>> although there are exceptions (mostly resolved by inferring from
>> older patches covering similar situation).
> 
> Should you be CCing linux-spdx@ on this?

Oops, I forgot to Cc that list. Will do in v2.

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