Re: REUSE/SPDX: Invalid LicenseRef in Linux sources

[Carmen Bianca Bakker]

Je ven, 2019-08-09 je 11:30 +0200, Charlemagne Lasse skribis:
> 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

The REUSE Spec mandates a file extension. The kernel isn't perfectly
compliant, and doesn't aim to be compliant.

Kindly,
Carmen

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