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

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Message-ID: <8d951db9-80a5-4209-ada5-6bba854e994d@prolan.hu>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:52:06 +0200
From: Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
To: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, 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>,
	Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@...id-run.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-hummingboard: Replace license text
 comment with SPDX identifier

Hi,

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).
> 
> On top, half of the files have the fragment "either version 2 of the
> License" for some reason, and not follow up with "or any later version".
> So the resulting SPDX license is still "GPL-2.0-only".
> 
> Cc: Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@...id-run.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>

So, Rabeeh, Russell, what do you think? Is there something else I need 
to change?

Bence