Re: [PATCH 5/6] staging:iio:ad2s90: Add SPDX license identifier

[Matheus Tavares Bernardino]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:20 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:19:52PM -0200, Matheus Tavares Bernardino wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:13 PM Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Matheus,
> > >
> >
> > Hi, Fabio
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:01 PM Matheus Tavares
> > > <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This patch adds the SPDX GPL-2.0-only license identifier to ad2s90.c,
> > > > which solves the checkpatch.pl warning:
> > > > "WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1".
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c | 1 +
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c
> > > > index 949ff55ac6b0..f439da721df8 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s90.c
> > > > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > >
> > > This should be:
> > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >
> > Hm, but it seems that the identifier "GPL-2.0" is deprecated, look:
> > https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0.html. It has been updated to
> > "GPL-2.0-only" in license list v3
> > (https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html). Is there some other
> > reason to use the deprecated "GPL-2.0" that I'm not aware of?
>
> Yes, please read the in-kernel documentation for all of this at:
>         Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
>
> Long story short, we started the adding of these tags to the kernel
> before the crazyness of the "-only" markings for GPL in spdx.  Let's
> keep it this way for now, if we ever get the whole kernel finished, then
> we can revisit the markings and maybe do a wholesale conversion, if it's
> really needed.
>

Got it, thanks for the explanation! I'll correct this in v2.

Thanks,
Matheus

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h