Re: [PATCH] PCI: Add SPDX GPL-2.0+ to replace implicit GPL v2 or later statement

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:40:52PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 7441b0627e22 ("s390/pci: PCI hotplug support via SCLP") added
> s390_pci_hpc.c, which included this license information:
> 
>   +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> 
> Based on "git show 7441b0627e22:include/linux/module.h", that "GPL" string
> means "GPL v2 or later":
> 
>    *      "GPL"                           [GNU Public License v2 or later]
> 
> 0729dcf24832 ("s390: hotplug: make pci_hpc explicitly non-modular")
> subsequently replaced the MODULE_LICENSE() with a "License: GPL" comment.
> 
> Add SPDX GPL-2.0+ and remove the "License: GPL" comment, relying on the
> assertion in b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
> identifier to files with no license") that the SPDX identifier may be used
> instead of the full boilerplate text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>