RE: [PATCH v2] ALSA: usb-audio: Add SPDX id to midi.c

[Bird, Tim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Add an SPDX-License-Identifier line to sound/usb/midi.c
> > Use 'BSD-Source-Code' as part of the OR for the
> > license id.
> >
> 
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> > - *    without modification.
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> > - *
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> 
> This isn't `BSD-Source-Code`.

What difference do you think is important?

I know there are some textual differences, but I believe that this text is semantically equivalent
to BSD-Source-Code. It matches exactly with the license file that I added to the kernel in this
same patch.  If you're referring to the 4th sentence, that's not part of the BSD-Source-Code
license, and is reflected in the other side of the 'OR' clause in the SDPX ID I assigned to this file.
'GPL-2.0-or-later OR BSD-Source-Code'

 -- Tim