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

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Message-ID: <0b94d62d-6cbb-411b-8bb6-6f23023c5001@prolan.hu>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 10:03:55 +0200
From: Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
To: Milo Kim <woogyom.kim@...il.com>, Milo Kim <milo.kim.w@...iatek.com>
CC: <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <imx@...ts.linux.dev>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Rob
 Herring" <robh@...nel.org>, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>, "Conor
 Dooley" <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, "Pengutronix
 Kernel Team" <kernel@...gutronix.de>, Krzysztof Kozlowski
	<krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-savageboard: Replace license text
 comment with SPDX identifier

Hi,

On 2025. 07. 09. 9:30, 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: Milo Kim <woogyom.kim@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>

Milo, what do you think?

Bence