Re: [PATCH] pwm: Replace license and copyright boilerplate by SPDX identfiers

[Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:17:59PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Roland,
> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:10:47PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> > > On 5/19/20 6:52 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c
> > > > index a06040ac3268..1e2db39def22 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c
> > > > @@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
> > > > -/*
> > > > - * Copyright 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
> > > > - *
> > > > - * The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
> > > > - * License. You may obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > > > - * Version 2 or later at the following locations:
> > > > - *
> > > > - * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html
> > > > - * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> > > > - */
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > > 
> > > The deleted text says "or later"
> > 
> > Ah, I stumbled over this too. The deleted text says:
> > 
> >     "The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
> >     License."
> > 
> > which in itself reads like "you can use any version of the GPL" (i.e.,
> > GPL-1.0-or-later). Later then the text says:
> > 
> >     "You may obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License
> >     Version 2 or later at the following locations:"
> > 
> > which in my opinion does not say anything about which version of the GPL
> > the code is licensed under.
> 
> This seems to be a problem in the Freescale template. I think I pointed
> that out once, but nothing changed.
> 
> For practical reasons I'd interpret that as "GPL-2.0-or-later".

Yeah, I guess that's alright.

Reviewed-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>

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