Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:22:20 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: sun: cassini: Cleanup license conflict | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:49:58 +0100 (CET)
> The recent addition of SPDX license identifiers to the files in > drivers/net/ethernet/sun created a licensing conflict. > > The cassini driver files contain a proper license notice: > > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the > * License, or (at your option) any later version. > > but the SPDX change added: > > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > > So the file got tagged GPL v2 only while in fact it is licensed under GPL > v2 or later. > > It's nice that people care about the SPDX tags, but they need to be more > careful about it. Not everything under (the) sun belongs to ... > > Fix up the SPDX identifier and remove the boiler plate text as it is > redundant. > > Fixes: c861ef83d771 ("sun: Add SPDX license tags to Sun network drivers") > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Applied.
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