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 4F9E7C04AAF for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 05:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB8520644 for ; Mon, 20 May 2019 05:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730019AbfETFZt (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 May 2019 01:25:49 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:56555 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729967AbfETFZt (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 May 2019 01:25:49 -0400 Received: from p5de0b374.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([93.224.179.116] helo=nanos) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hSanu-0007f3-Ki; Mon, 20 May 2019 07:25:42 +0200 Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 07:25:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Allison Randal cc: Richard Fontana , Steve Winslow , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 16/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 16 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20190519135130.462579320@linutronix.de> <20190519154042.138630237@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 Sun, 19 May 2019, Allison Randal wrote: > On 5/20/19 1:42 AM, Richard Fontana wrote: > > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 8:27 PM Steve Winslow > > wrote: > >> > >> For this one, the additional disclaimer paragraph at the bottom > >> (beginning with "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY...") appears to come > >> from a BSD-style license, not GPL. I'm not sure this disclaimer should > >> be deleted and replaced by just a standard GPL-2.0-or-later tag. > > > > I am inclined to agree with Steve. It's materially different from the > > disclaimers in GPLv2 itself and could also indicate the remnants of an > > otherwise vanished BSD license notice. > > Would you be comfortable replacing the first three paragraphs of license > notice and disclaimer, which are clearly GPLv2 or later, and just > leaving the snowflake final paragraph disclaimer text in the file? > > There isn't enough of a BSD license here to make this clearly dual licensed. Let's skip that one for now. I talk to the author what the intention was with that. Thanks, tglx