Re: [PATCH] Input: input-event-codes.h: Update the deprecated license

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Mar 28 2020 - 03:20:39 EST


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> >From https://spdx.org/licenses/
>
> "Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more
> explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later
> version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used
> Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0."
>
> Replace the
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> with
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */
>
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx>

If you like reading documentation for stuff like this, how about reading
LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 which shows that both examples are just fine
and we are going to stick with that for now as we don't want to do a
wholesale change at this point in time.

In other words, we do not follow the 3.0 version of the SPDX spec as we
think it's pretty silly :)

thanks,

greg k-h