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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 69810C2D0E7 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC552073E for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:24:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585466678; bh=jlBuA17ZkykA4afgeBWaAMvA9oLO8Nhtj9M+58dDUwY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=edl2y//GUCjozTs7HLRnmtSj8IYvI67eLVyZmHkD0vXC7CRp2m6H2uF3octPJdc0E 9WfqP5liwgA14/gl6vnegIMVBj4EAkph1e1jNjFv3fX4CkdK3OvVTYJqeRJUWjfruo wLE9K4EjrUT4O7c+mWFhXYR/REUuGe9khkE0wEvY= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727431AbgC2HYh (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:24:37 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50126 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726342AbgC2HYg (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:24:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 98DFB2073B; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 07:24:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1585466675; bh=jlBuA17ZkykA4afgeBWaAMvA9oLO8Nhtj9M+58dDUwY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=VkhsiyFKlVwWwsdxs1176XLRO6sPPHZrxn/aC1ePgbw0yE3MtxoeaHfoUlODlsm2k dfLqtcangCuNpZLJqsngejd5Dhu0r4k6POPFf8Uvhu+ocd0gF+ecMNFwAQ1C4wYBNG HsW79oEd3d5dBEj6nrMlEj/34tDnnkh1js1BMKB8= Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:24:32 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Rajat Jain , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" , lkml , Thomas Gleixner , Rajat Jain Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: input-event-codes.h: Update the deprecated license Message-ID: <20200329072432.GB3909421@kroah.com> References: <20200328004832.107247-1-rajatja@google.com> <20200328072031.GA3651219@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:42:09PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:20 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote: > > > >From https://spdx.org/licenses/ > > > > > > "Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more > > > explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later > > > version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used > > > Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0." > > > > > > Replace the > > > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */ > > > with > > > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */ > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain > > > > If you like reading documentation for stuff like this, how about reading > > LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 which shows that both examples are just fine > > and we are going to stick with that for now as we don't want to do a > > wholesale change at this point in time. > > > > In other words, we do not follow the 3.0 version of the SPDX spec as we > > think it's pretty silly :) > > coreboot however does follow SPDX 3.0 and would like to be able to > consume this file without relaxing their license checks. I do not > think we need wholesale update, but is there reason to not update this > particular file? I am not following SPDX development, so that's why > you got pulled in ;) If you want to take this change because of sharing with other projects, that's fine, but do not say that the reason you are making this change is because it is somehow required by our use of SPDX and the updated version. Just say that you want to share it with other projects :) thanks, greg k-h