From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9DEC282DD for ; Thu, 23 May 2019 12:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A9620851 for ; Thu, 23 May 2019 12:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729430AbfEWMYE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2019 08:24:04 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:39627 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729361AbfEWMYD (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 May 2019 08:24:03 -0400 Received: from [5.158.153.53] (helo=nanos.lab.linutronix.de) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hTmlN-0002kc-Tx; Thu, 23 May 2019 14:24:02 +0200 Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 14:24:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Richard Fontana cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Batch 5 - patch 17/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 117 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20190523091437.334232837@linutronix.de> <20190523091650.940005488@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 May 2019, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:29 AM Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > 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 either version 2 of the license or at > > your option any later version due to this file being licensed under > > the gpl there is controversy over whether this permits you to write > > a module that includes this file without placing your module under > > the gpl please consult a lawyer for advice before doing this > > > > extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier > > > > GPL-2.0-or-later > > > > has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 2 file(s). > > Why should > > > due to this file being licensed under > > the gpl there is controversy over whether this permits you to write > > a module that includes this file without placing your module under > > the gpl please consult a lawyer for advice before doing this > > be treated as "boilerplate" that should be deleted? It is a > non-boilerplate statement about legal interpretation that goes beyond > the mere license notice. Seems to merit discussion anyway. See my earlier reply. I already flagged this for special attention. Thanks, tglx