Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra
> > > > <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only
> > > > > tag.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old
> > > > and new variants are okay.
> > > 
> > > If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license
> > > style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org.
> > 
> > They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> > 
> > So, fix documentation in the kernel then.
> 
> That said, NAK to the patch as long as in-kernel documentation says it's valid.

Maintainers and authors should get to chose whatever
license text they prefer with the assent of the licensors.

A NAK here by you doesn't make much sense to me.

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl  drivers/platform/chrome/
Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT)
Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT)
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

$ git log --no-merges --format="%an <%ae>" drivers/platform/chrome | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
     53 Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     23 Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     16 Nick Crews <ncrews@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
     15 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
      9 Prashant Malani <pmalani@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      9 Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      8 Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
      6 Shawn Nematbakhsh <shawnn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      5 Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
      5 Daniel Campello <campello@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
      4 Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@xxxxxxxxxx>
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