Re: [PATCH 3/7] brcmsmac: switch source files to using SPDX license identifier

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

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 09:45:19PM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 5/16/2019 7:31 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:04:07PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > > With ISC license text in place under the LICENSES folder switch
> > > to using the SPDX license identifier to refer to the ISC license.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> > > ---
> > > Hi Thomas, Greg,
> > > 
> > > The file drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/led.c
> > > did not have license information nor copyright notice and as such
> > > it got included in commit b24413180f56 ("License cleanup: add SPDX
> > > GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license"). I added you
> > > guys as I propose to align this source file with the rest of
> > > the driver sources and change it to ISC license and add the missing
> > > copyright notice while at it (not sure if that warrants a separate
> > > patch).
> > 
> > A separate patch would be good, to make it explicit that you are
> > changing the license of the file.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > And ISC, ick, why...  :)
> 
> Because the license text in the other driver source files is a 1:1 match
> with the ISC license.

Oh, I am not disagreeing with that, yes, that is obviously the license
of the files.  Just complaining about that choice for Linux kernel code :)

> Another option could be MIT license which is in the preferred folder.
> Will have to consult our legal department about it though.

Hey, if your legal department is going to get asked this, why not just
switch it to GPLv2?  That would make everything much simpler.

thanks,

greg k-h