Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] ARM: dts: meson6: update with SPDX Licence identifier

From: Marc Gonzalez
Date: Wed Jul 03 2019 - 10:38:02 EST


On 27/05/2019 15:38, Neil Armstrong wrote:

> While the text specifies "of the GPL or the X11 license" the actual
> license text matches the MIT license as specified at [0]
>
> [0] https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi | 44 +----------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 43 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi
> index 65585255910a..2d31b7ce3f8c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson6.dtsi
> @@ -1,48 +1,6 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
> /*
> * Copyright 2014 Carlo Caione <carlo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> - *
> - * This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms
> - * of the GPL or the X11 license, at your option. Note that this dual
> - * licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a
> - * whole.
> - *
> - * a) This library 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.

You seem to have been so focused on the X11 vs MIT issue that you might
have overlooked the GPL issue?

You selected "GPL-2.0", while the text called for "GPL-2.0+"
(GNU General Public License v2.0 or later)

(Pointed out by Maxime in a similar patch.)

Regards.