linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86/kvm/ioapic: Remove license boilerplate with bad FSF address

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Message-ID: <2025072819-bobcat-ragged-81a7@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:36:47 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86/kvm/ioapic: Remove license boilerplate with
 bad FSF address

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
> 
> The Free Software Foundation does not reside in "59 Temple Place"
> anymore, so we should not mention that address in the source code here.
> But instead of updating the address to their current location, let's
> rather drop the license boilerplate text here and use a proper SPDX
> license identifier instead. The text talks about the "GNU *Lesser*
> General Public License" and "any later version", so LGPL-2.1+ is the
> right choice here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
> ---
>  v2: Don't use the deprecated LGPL-2.1+ identifier

If you look at the LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 file, it says to use:
	SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+

as the kernel's SPDX level is older than you might think.

Also, doesn't the scripts/spdxcheck.pl tool object to the "or-later"
when you run it on the tree with this change in it?

thansk,

greg k-h