netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: macsec: convert to SPDX

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Message-ID: <20190124132937.GF3662@kwain>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:29:37 +0100
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        sd@...asysnail.net, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com,
        quentin.schulz@...tlin.com, allan.nielsen@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: macsec: convert to SPDX

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 02:11:18PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > That's right, I'll fix it in v2. In such cases, the license text takes
> > precedence over the MODULE_LICENSE() definition ?
>  
> I've also not seen any real discussion about this. But when i recently
> proposed patches to cleanup similar issues in drivers/net/phy, i gave
> the license text precedence, since it is a lot easier for a human to
> understand, and it is likely a human made the error....

I would go for this as well, it seems logical for MODULE_LICENSE() to
only be an identifier of what the license described in the license text
is.

Thanks!
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com