netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Fixup GPLv2+ SPDX tags based on license text

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Message-Id: <20190122.205720.931444384996743197.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:57:20 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        david.wu@...k-chips.com, lidongpo@...ilicon.com,
        schmitzmic@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Fixup GPLv2+ SPDX tags based on license text

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:08:49 +0100

> A few PHY drivers have the GPLv2+ license text. They then either have
> a MODULE_LICENSE() of GPLv2 only, or an SPDX tag of GPLv2 only.
> 
> Since the license text is much easier to understand than either the
> SPDX tag or the MODULE_LICENSE, use it as the definitive source of the
> licence, and fixup the others when there are contradictions.
> 
> Cc: David Wu <david.wu@...k-chips.com>
> Cc: Dongpo Li <lidongpo@...ilicon.com>
> Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

Applied, thanks for fixing this Andrew.