Re: [PATCH 0/4] PCI: Add SPDX tags

From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Thu Feb 08 2018 - 09:13:43 EST


Bjorn,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:32 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to
> files with no license") added SPDX GPL-2.0 tags to several PCI files.
>
> These patches add SPDX tags to almost all remaining PCI files. For ease of
> reviewing they're split into several cases (GPL v2, GPL v2+, etc.)

Better late than never: thank you ++ for this: my hero!

> One file (drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c) specifies only "GPL"; I don't
> know what to do with that, so I left it unchanged.

This is the way to go when there are ambiguities alright. One
interpretation of a bare GPL is GPL-1.0+ but the context matters a
lot!

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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne