Re: REUSE/SPDX: Invalid LicenseRef in Linux sources

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:30:44AM +0200, Charlemagne Lasse wrote:
> When I run the reuse lint tool on the current linux sources, I get
> following error
> 
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/deprecated/GPL-1.0, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown0
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/exceptions/GCC-exception-2.0, resolving to
> LicenseRef-Unknown1
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.0, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown2
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown3
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown4
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown5
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/dual/MPL-1.1, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown6
> reuse.project - WARNING - Could not resolve SPDX identifier of
> LICENSES/dual/CDDL-1.0, resolving to LicenseRef-Unknown7
> 
> Can you please help to fix the problem

Please fix the reuse tool, I don't see this being a kernel issue, it has
never said it follows the spec put forth by the reuse project.

thanks,

greg k-h