Re: [PATCH] clk: meson: use SPDX license identifiers consistently

From: Jerome Brunet
Date: Wed May 16 2018 - 03:58:07 EST


On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 10:58 -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Jerome Brunet (2018-05-15 09:42:29)
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c
> > index f7ab5b1db342..ac0743cd0f2f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/meson/clk-audio-divider.c
> > @@ -1,18 +1,7 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>
> This is GPL2 or later.
>
> > /*
> > * Copyright (c) 2017 AmLogic, Inc.
> > * Author: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > - *
> > - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> > - * under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
> > - * version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > - *
> > - * This program is distributed in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> > - * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> > - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
> > - * more details.
> > - *
> > - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
> > - * this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>
> But this looks like GPL2 only because there isn't an "or later" part of
> the text. Is it intentional to relicense to GPL2+ instead of GPL2 only?

Nope, no re-licensing intended. Thanks a lot for the explanation.
I'll recheck the rest of the patch for this error.

> If so, please add that into the commit text.
>