Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Update the SPDX license identifiers

[Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel)]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM Maciej Wieczor-Retman
<maciej.wieczor-retman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ACPICA upstream changed its license to "BSD-2-Clause-Patent OR
> GPL-2.0-only". Update the SPDX license identifier of every ACPICA file
> carried by the kernel to the GPL-2.0-only license. Specifically all of
> drivers/acpi/acpica/, the ACPICA headers in include/acpi/ and
> include/acpi/platform/, and the ACPICA sources shared with the acpidump
> tool under tools/power/acpi/.

This change is not necessary because after the most recent
arrangements, the upstream ACPICA license will be "BSD-3-Clause OR
GPL-2.0-only" which is in agreement with the SPDX identifiers already
present in ACPICA files in the kernel.

Apologies to everyone for the noise.