Re: [PATCH] Input: input-event-codes.h: Update the deprecated license

[Rajat Jain]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:24 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:42:09PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:20 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> > > > >From https://spdx.org/licenses/
> > > >
> > > > "Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more
> > > > explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later
> > > > version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used
> > > > Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0."
> > > >
> > > > Replace the
> > > > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> > > > with
> > > > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > If you like reading documentation for stuff like this, how about reading
> > > LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 which shows that both examples are just fine
> > > and we are going to stick with that for now as we don't want to do a
> > > wholesale change at this point in time.
> > >
> > > In other words, we do not follow the 3.0 version of the SPDX spec as we
> > > think it's pretty silly :)
> >
> > coreboot however does follow SPDX 3.0 and would like to be able to
> > consume this file without relaxing their license checks. I do not
> > think we need wholesale update, but is there reason to not update this
> > particular file? I am not following SPDX development, so that's why
> > you got pulled in ;)
>
> If you want to take this change because of sharing with other projects,
> that's fine, but do not say that the reason you are making this change
> is because it is somehow required by our use of SPDX and the updated
> version.  Just say that you want to share it with other projects :)

Thank you. Updated patch is here:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11464109/

Best Regards,

Rajat

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h