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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>,
	Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net: sun: cassini: Cleanup license conflict
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:49:58 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1901181147160.1647@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)

The recent addition of SPDX license identifiers to the files in
drivers/net/ethernet/sun created a licensing conflict.

The cassini driver files contain a proper license notice:

  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
  * License, or (at your option) any later version.

but the SPDX change added:

   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

So the file got tagged GPL v2 only while in fact it is licensed under GPL
v2 or later.

It's nice that people care about the SPDX tags, but they need to be more
careful about it. Not everything under (the) sun belongs to ...

Fix up the SPDX identifier and remove the boiler plate text as it is
redundant.

Fixes: c861ef83d771 ("sun: Add SPDX license tags to Sun network drivers")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c |   15 +--------------
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.h |   15 +--------------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
@@ -1,22 +1,9 @@
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
 /* cassini.c: Sun Microsystems Cassini(+) ethernet driver.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2003 Adrian Sun (asun@darksunrising.com)
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
- * License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * 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.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- *
  * This driver uses the sungem driver (c) David Miller
  * (davem@redhat.com) as its basis.
  *
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.h
@@ -1,23 +1,10 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
 /* $Id: cassini.h,v 1.16 2004/08/17 21:15:16 zaumen Exp $
  * cassini.h: Definitions for Sun Microsystems Cassini(+) ethernet driver.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc.
  * Copyright (c) 2003 Adrian Sun (asun@darksunrising.com)
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
- * License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * 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.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- *
  * vendor id: 0x108E (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
  * device id: 0xabba (Cassini)
  * revision ids: 0x01 = Cassini

             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-18 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-18 10:49 Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-01-18 16:30 ` [PATCH] net: sun: cassini: Cleanup license conflict Shannon Nelson
2019-01-22  4:39   ` Yanjun Zhu
2019-01-22 19:22 ` David Miller

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