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([2a02:8108:85c0:57c8:bc68:3d44:305d:951f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x139-v6sm16416906wme.3.2018.10.28.03.04.07 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:04:07 -0700 (PDT) To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List From: Michael Straube Subject: Which SPDX Identifier for files without explicit GPL version Message-ID: <406c69c1-43fd-f821-b74b-a1399ed636e9@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:04:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, which GPL version should be used in SPDX Identifiers for files that are GPL licensed but do not mention any version? It is not clear to me after reading license-rules.rst. For example: /****************************************************************************** * Copyright(c) 2008 - 2010 Realtek Corporation. All rights reserved. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for * more details. * * The full GNU General Public License is included in this distribution in the * file called LICENSE. * * Contact Information: * wlanfae *****************************************************************************/ or: /* IEEE 802.11 SoftMAC layer * Copyright (c) 2005 Andrea Merello * * Mostly extracted from the rtl8180-sa2400 driver for the * in-kernel generic ieee802.11 stack. * * Some pieces of code might be stolen from ipw2100 driver * copyright of who own it's copyright ;-) * * PS wx handler mostly stolen from hostap, copyright who * own it's copyright ;-) * * released under the GPL */ Should it be GPL-2.0 ? Regards, Michael