Re: [PATCH] media: prefer generic SPDX-License expression to deprecated one

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:23:11PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:31:32 +0100
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> escreveu:
> 
> > Commit 8d395ce6f04b ("media: dvb-core: Convert to SPDX identifier") and
> > commit e67219b0496b ("media: b2c2: flexcop: Convert to SPDX identifier")
> > introduce the SPDX-License expression LGPL-2.1-or-later for some files.
> > 
> > The command ./scripts/spdxcheck.py warns:
> > 
> >   drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: LGPL-2.1-or-later
> >   drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: LGPL-2.1-or-later
> >   drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: LGPL-2.1-or-later
> >   drivers/media/common/b2c2/flexcop.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: LGPL-2.1-or-later
> > 
> > The preferred SPDX expression for LGPL-2.1 or any later version is with
> > the more generic "+"-extension for "any later version", so: LGPL-2.1+
> > 
> > This makes spdxcheck happy again.
> 
> It doesn't sound right to apply such patch.
> 
> See, the latest SPDX version uses LGPL-2.1-or-later:
> 
> 	https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1-or-later.html
> 
> And it deprecated LGPL-2.1+:
> 
> 	https://spdx.org/licenses/LGPL-2.1+.html
> 
> So, those files are perfectly fine with regards to SPDX, and are
> adherent to its latest specs. We do need the latest specs on media,
> as our documentation is under GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later, which
> only exists on newer SPDX versions.
> 
> So, the right thing to do here seems to fix spdxcheck.py, letting it
> either allow both variants (as we probably don't want to replace it
> everywhere) or to emit a warning if the deprecated ones are used.

No, we are not going to add a "warning" for older SPDX versions like
that, otherwise the majority of the kernel will start spitting out
warnings.

Let's worry about actually fixing all of the files that do NOT have SPDX
tags before even considering to move to a newer version of the spec.  We
started this work before the FSF made the crazy change to their tags,
let's not worry about any deprecated issues at the moment.

thanks,

greg k-h