Re: [PATCH] pwm: Replace license and copyright boilerplate by SPDX identfiers

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hello Roland,

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:10:47PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> > On 5/19/20 6:52 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c
> > > index a06040ac3268..1e2db39def22 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-mxs.c
> > > @@ -1,13 +1,5 @@
> > > -/*
> > > - * Copyright 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
> > > - *
> > > - * The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
> > > - * License. You may obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > > - * Version 2 or later at the following locations:
> > > - *
> > > - * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html
> > > - * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> > > - */
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > 
> > The deleted text says "or later"
> 
> Ah, I stumbled over this too. The deleted text says:
> 
>     "The code contained herein is licensed under the GNU General Public
>     License."
> 
> which in itself reads like "you can use any version of the GPL" (i.e.,
> GPL-1.0-or-later). Later then the text says:
> 
>     "You may obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License
>     Version 2 or later at the following locations:"
> 
> which in my opinion does not say anything about which version of the GPL
> the code is licensed under.

This seems to be a problem in the Freescale template. I think I pointed
that out once, but nothing changed.

For practical reasons I'd interpret that as "GPL-2.0-or-later".

Best regards
Uwe

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