Re: [Batch 9 patch 06/23] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 181

From: Steve Winslow <swinslow@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Batch 9 patch 06/23] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 181
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 22:23:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL8Xim75R7dsdoC+twZLWAx5AzED-nX3ewJ6hJNwWoFdSqKvPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97654f57-a07d-b00b-a389-691257cdabfc@lohutok.net>

Agree with Allison, for holding on this one.

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:50 PM Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> wrote:
>
> On 5/28/19 12:57 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
> >
> > Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
> >
> >   this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
> >   it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
> >   the free software foundation version 2 of the license this program
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> > extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
> >
> >   GPL-2.0-only
> >
> > has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 23 file(s).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>
> Hold for review of special disclaimers.

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Steve Winslow
Director of Strategic Programs
The Linux Foundation
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