Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only

From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Collabora Kernel ML <kernel@collabora.com>,
	groeck@chromium.org, Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@chromium.org>,
	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>,
	Bernardo Perez Priego <bernardo.perez.priego@intel.com>,
	Daniel Campello <campello@chromium.org>,
	Enrico Granata <egranata@chromium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Nick Crews <ncrews@chromium.org>,
	Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Yicheng Li <yichengli@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Clarify SPDX license with GPL-2.0-only
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:45:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200626104513.GQ3703480@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e55eb146d8e66ba1aaf057b807e6bd6ed16d78.camel@perches.com>

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 12:52:21PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra
> > > > > <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only
> > > > > > tag.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old
> > > > > and new variants are okay.
> > > > 
> > > > If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license
> > > > style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org.
> > > 
> > > They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation:
> > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0
> > > 
> > > So, fix documentation in the kernel then.
> > 
> > That said, NAK to the patch as long as in-kernel documentation says it's valid.
> 
> Maintainers and authors should get to chose whatever
> license text they prefer with the assent of the licensors.
> 
> A NAK here by you doesn't make much sense to me.

Yes, it's a private opinion from a PDx86 maintainer.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko