Am 27.06.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Daniel Thompson:

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:11:17PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:

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Question: Should it still be GPL-2.0+ or the new GPL-2.0-or-later?

I think GPL-2.0+ is fine.

So... when I saw this I did wonder why one would knowly choose to use a
deprecated license identifier (https://spdx.org/licenses/ ).

However running `git diff v4.17..v4.18-rc1` through some filters does
indicate that GPL-2.0+ is the more popular choice by 256 to 0! Doesn't
mean you couldn't break the mould though ;-).

The kernel.org documentation does not mention the new ones yet.

I checked under LICENSES/ - preferred/GPL-2.0.txt actually lists both
identifiers, and checkpatch.pl did not complain about either.

So for my personal patches I'll be going with the new identifier, unless
I hear of reasons not to.

Cheers,
Andreas

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