Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging:iio:accel:adis16203: add SPDX license identifier tag

From: Himanshu Jha
Date: Wed Apr 03 2019 - 08:38:06 EST


On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:41:28AM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Pop in the SPDX tag as the license is clearly indicated
> as GPL V2 or later this should also be indicated with a SPDX license
> identifier tag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> chackpatch.pl was warning:
> WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
>
> Patch was compile tested with: X86_64_defconfig + SPI=y, IIO=m
> STAGING=y, ADIS16203=m
>
> Patch is against 5.1-rc3 (localversion-next is next-20190403)
>
> drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203.c b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203.c
> index 5cc96c80..cf9d41a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ ?

Documentation/process/license-rules.rst

For 'GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version' use:
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+

The following should also be removed in this same patch:

* Licensed under the GPL-2 or later.

And lastly, MODULE_LICENSE() should also be checked, which appear
to be correct in its current form.

> /*
> * ADIS16203 Programmable 360 Degrees Inclinometer
> *
> --
> 2.1.4
>

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Himanshu Jha
Undergraduate Student
Department of Electronics & Communication
Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology