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,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 800D2C28CC0 for ; Wed, 29 May 2019 13:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E91522CD2 for ; Wed, 29 May 2019 13:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727456AbfE2Nv2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2019 09:51:28 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:53759 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726029AbfE2Nv1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 May 2019 09:51:27 -0400 Received: from [207.225.69.115] (helo=nanos) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hVyzD-0003i8-Nl; Wed, 29 May 2019 15:51:24 +0200 Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 06:51:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Alexandre Belloni cc: Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SPDX update for 5.2-rc1 - round 1 In-Reply-To: <20190529131300.GV3274@piout.net> Message-ID: References: <20190521133257.GA21471@kroah.com> <20190529131300.GV3274@piout.net> 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 Alexandre, On Wed, 29 May 2019, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > Hello, > > On 21/05/2019 15:32:57+0200, Greg KH wrote: > > - Add GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later tags to files where our scan > > I'm very confused by those two tags because they are not mentioned in > the SPDX 2.1 specification or the kernel documentation and seem to just > be from https://spdx.org/ids-howi which doesn't seem to be versionned > anywhere. https://spdx.org/licenses/ is versioned. It's at version 3.5 and the -only/-or-later tags have been introduced in version 3.0. See https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0 > While I understand the rationale behind those, I believe the correct way > of introducing them would be first to add them in the spec and > documentation and then make use of them. Well, the problem was that people started to use them and argued that they are the new standard, which is true. So we decided to allow both. See: 9376ff9ba298 ("LICENSES/GPL2.0: Add GPL-2.0-only/or-later as valid identifiers") > Now, what should we do with all the GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0+ tags that we > have? Nothing. Leave them alone. Both are valid and tools have to deal with them anyway. Thanks, tglx