[Intel-wired-lan] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel drivers

Shannon Nelson shannon.nelson at oracle.com
Wed Feb 7 17:22:25 UTC 2018


On 2/7/2018 9:13 AM, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> On 2/2/2018 3:11 PM, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> Add the SPDX identifiers to all the Intel wired LAN driver files, as
>> outlined in Documentation/process/license-rules.rst.
> 
> It was just pointed out to me on netdev that the SPDX tag "GPL-2.0" has 
> been deprecated.  See the bottom of https://spdx.org/licenses/ for details.
> 
> Of course GregKH and friends have put this tag all over the kernel 
> already, so I don't know what they're going to do.  However, using 
> "GPL-2.0-only" might make more sense for your files.
> 
> In several of the Sun files I was attempting to patch we have the text
>   * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>   * License, or (at your option) any later version.
> so I'll likely need to use "GPL-2.0+".

s/GPL-2.0+/GPL-2.0-or-later/

> 
> sln


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