On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM Andy Shevchenko > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:29 PM Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 22:06 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:25 PM Enric Balletbo i Serra > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Remove the ambiguity with GPL-2.0 and use an explicit GPL-2.0-only > > > > > tag. > > > > > > > > Is there any? Last time IIRC Greg told me that in the kernel the old > > > > and new variants are okay. > > > > > > If there wasn't any ambiguity, the older license > > > style wouldn't be deprecated by SPDX.org. > > > > They are _not_ deprecated according to kernel documentation: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 > > > > So, fix documentation in the kernel then. > > That said, NAK to the patch as long as in-kernel documentation says it's > valid.
Maintainers and authors should get to chose whatever license text they prefer with the assent of the licensors. A NAK here by you doesn't make much sense to me. $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/platform/chrome/ Benson Leung <[email protected]> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT) Enric Balletbo i Serra <[email protected]> (maintainer:CHROME HARDWARE PLATFORM SUPPORT) [email protected] (open list) $ git log --no-merges --format="%an <%ae>" drivers/platform/chrome | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 53 Enric Balletbo i Serra <[email protected]> 23 Gwendal Grignou <[email protected]> 16 Nick Crews <[email protected]> 15 Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> 9 Prashant Malani <[email protected]> 9 Benson Leung <[email protected]> 8 Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]> 6 Shawn Nematbakhsh <[email protected]> 5 Nick Dyer <[email protected]> 5 Daniel Campello <[email protected]> 4 Tzung-Bi Shih <[email protected]> 4 Thierry Escande <[email protected]> 4 Stephen Boyd <[email protected]> 4 Pi-Hsun Shih <[email protected]> 4 Olof Johansson <[email protected]> 4 Eric Caruso <[email protected]> 4 Douglas Anderson <[email protected]> 4 Bill Richardson <[email protected]> 4 Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> 3 Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> 3 Stephen Barber <[email protected]> 3 Raul E Rangel <[email protected]> 3 Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> 3 Olof Johansson <[email protected]> 3 Evan Green <[email protected]> 3 Enrico Granata <[email protected]> 3 Brian Norris <[email protected]> 2 Jett Rink <[email protected]> 2 Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]> 2 Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> 2 Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> 2 Gene Chen <[email protected]> 2 Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> 2 Christian Engelmayer <[email protected]> 2 Aaron Durbin <[email protected]> 1 YueHaibing <[email protected]> 1 Yilun Lin <[email protected]> 1 Yicheng Li <[email protected]> 1 Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> 1 Wen Yang <[email protected]> 1 Wenkai Du <[email protected]> 1 Wei Yongjun <[email protected]> 1 Vincent Palatin <[email protected]> 1 Vic Yang <[email protected]> 1 Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> 1 Tim Wawrzynczak <[email protected]> 1 Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> 1 Thierry Reding <[email protected]> 1 Simon Que <[email protected]> 1 Sergiu Cuciurean <[email protected]> 1 Sarthak Kukreti <[email protected]> 1 Salvatore Bellizzi <[email protected]> 1 Rushikesh S Kadam <[email protected]> 1 Robin Schroer <[email protected]> 1 Ravi Chandra Sadineni <[email protected]> 1 Rajat Jain <[email protected]> 1 Nicolas Boichat <[email protected]> 1 Neil Armstrong <[email protected]> 1 Navid Emamdoost <[email protected]> 1 Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> 1 Mohammed Habibulla <[email protected]> 1 Mika Westerberg <[email protected]> 1 Michael Mullin <[email protected]> 1 Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> 1 Logan Gunthorpe <[email protected]> 1 Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 1 Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> 1 Kirill Smelkov <[email protected]> 1 Kees Cook <[email protected]> 1 kbuild test robot <[email protected]> 1 kbuild test robot <[email protected]> 1 Joseph Lo <[email protected]> 1 Jon Flatley <[email protected]> 1 Jeffery Yu <[email protected]> 1 Jarkko Nikula <[email protected]> 1 Hyungwoo Yang <[email protected]> 1 Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]> 1 Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> 1 Geliang Tang <[email protected]> 1 Emil Karlson <[email protected]> 1 Emilio López <[email protected]> 1 Colin Ian King <[email protected]> 1 Clinton Sprain <[email protected]> 1 Chuhong Yuan <[email protected]> 1 Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> 1 Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]> 1 Charlie Mooney <[email protected]> 1 Bhumika Goyal <[email protected]> 1 Bernardo Perez Priego <[email protected]> 1 Ben Dooks (Codethink) <[email protected]> 1 Archana Patni <[email protected]> 1 Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]> 1 Al Viro <[email protected]>
