Re: [PATCH 08/10] ARM: dts: meson8b: update with SPDX Licence identifier

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 16:19:43 EST


Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Neil,
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 4:39 PM Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi | 42 +---------------------------------
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 41 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
>> index 800cd65fc50a..c38b0828b7ec 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
>> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/meson8b.dtsi
>> @@ -1,47 +1,7 @@
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR X11
>
> the GPL text below states "either version 2 of the License, or (at
> your option) any later version" so I believe this should be GPL-2.0+

The "at your option" here is key. IMO, we should stick to the more
common kernel practice of GPL-2.0 unless the original author (Carlo
now Cc'd) wants to make it GPL-2.0+

Kevin