linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] scripts/spelling.txt: add GPL-2.0+

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Message-ID: <031e2929d88843c2fa913ed7f3ee2abbe041a68a.camel@perches.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 02:51:03 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@...onical.com>, Andy Whitcroft
	 <apw@...onical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn	
 <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Simon
 Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
 Colin Ian King	 <colin.i.king@...il.com>, Yu Jiaoliang
 <yujiaoliang@...o.com>, WangYuli	 <wangyuli@...ontech.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] scripts/spelling.txt: add GPL-2.0+

On Sun, 2024-12-15 at 03:51 +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> The correct SPDX identifier for the 'GNU General Public License v2.0 or
> later' is GPL-2.0-or-later.

I think this unnecessary as there's a separate script
to check the appropriate SPDX uses treewide and there
isn't a single existing use of "gpl-2.0+' in the tree.


> 
> Checkpatch.pl uses the misspelled words from spelling.txt both as keys of a
> hash and as part of a regular expression. For usage in the regular
> expression special characters like the plus sign need to be escaped.
> 
> Heinrich Schuchardt (2):
>   checkpatch: allow special characters in spelling.txt
>   scripts/spelling.txt: add GPL-2.0+
> 
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  scripts/spelling.txt  | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>