linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-aristainetos2: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier

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Message-ID: <58709258-9154-4ec1-b64c-5be161b061e8@prolan.hu>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:11:32 +0200
From: Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
To: Heiko Schocher <hs@...x.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, "Krzysztof
 Kozlowski" <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Shawn
 Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	"Pengutronix Kernel Team" <kernel@...gutronix.de>, Fabio Estevam
	<festevam@...il.com>
CC: <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <imx@...ts.linux.dev>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Erika Unter" <e.unter@...x.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-aristainetos2: Replace license text
 comment with SPDX identifier

Hi Heiko,

On 2025. 07. 09. 9:28, Bence Csókás wrote:
> Replace verbatim license text with a `SPDX-License-Identifier`.
> 
> The comment header mis-attributes this license to be "X11", but the
> license text does not include the last line "Except as contained in this
> notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or
> otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
> without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.". Therefore,
> this license is actually equivalent to the SPDX "MIT" license (confirmed
> by text diffing).
> 
> Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@...x.de>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>

Do you agree with this change?

Bence