linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6-display5: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier

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Message-ID: <aKVAeyQ6iXU0-zl5@dragon>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:26:51 +0800
From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo2@...h.net>
To: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
Cc: 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>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	imx@...ts.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: imx6-display5: Replace license text comment
 with SPDX identifier

On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 09:32:44AM +0200, 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: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>

Applied, thanks!