Re: [PATCH] gpio: uapi: use the preferred SPDX license identifier

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:47 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > GPL-2.0 license identifier is deprecated, let's use the preferred
> > identifier: GPL-2.0-only.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Hi Kent, Greg,
> >
> > I started working on making libgpiod licensing reuse-compliant and noticed
> > that the reuse-tool is telling me that the GPL-2.0 SPDX identifier in the
> > GPIO uapi header is deprecated. Since I'm required to copy the header
> > verbatim into libgpiod's repository, I think we need to fix that at source
> > first.
> >
> >  include/uapi/linux/gpio.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
> > index e4eb0b8c5cf9..3e01ededbf36 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */
>
> No, there is no need to convert the kernel to the "latest" spdx level,
> when we started out there was no "-only" nonsense (hint no other license
> has that crud), and "GPL-2.0" is a totally valid summary of the license.
>
> So please don't go changing it all in-kernel, that way lies madness.
> Let's finish fixing up ALL kernel files before worrying about what SPDX
> "version" we are at.
>

But then, the reuse script is telling me:

    Unfortunately, your project is not compliant with version 3.0 of
the REUSE Specification :-(

because I'm using a deprecated license. :(

Bartosz