Re: [patch 2/9] crypto: aegis - Cleanup license mess
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Jan 25 2019 - 05:48:03 EST
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:14:18AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Precise and non-ambiguous license information is important. The recently
> added aegis header file has a SPDX license identifier, which is nice, but
> at the same time it has a contradictionary license boiler plate text.
>
> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>
> versus
>
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
> * any later version
>
> Oh well.
>
> As the other aegis related files are licensed under the GPL v2 or later,
> it's assumed that the boiler plate code is correct, but the SPDX license
> identifier is wrong.
>
> Fix the SPDX identifier and remove the boiler plate as it is redundant.
>
> Fixes: f606a88e5823 ("crypto: aegis - Add generic AEGIS AEAD implementations")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnacek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>
> P.S.: This patch is part of a larger cleanup, but independent of other
> patches and is intended to be picked up by the maintainer directly.
>
> ---
> crypto/aegis.h | 7 +------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
Patches 2-5 applied. Thanks.
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