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

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:40 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c
> index 530d0e49f2ed..ffdc2977395d 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/s390_pci_hpc.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>  /*
>   * PCI Hot Plug Controller Driver for System z
>   *
> @@ -5,8 +6,6 @@
>   *
>   * Author(s):
>   *   Jan Glauber <jang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> - *
> - * License: GPL
>   */
>
>  #define KMSG_COMPONENT "zpci"

Thanks!
I have CCed too: Jan Glauber <jang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> too just in case!


Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>