On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:01 AM Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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How likely is it that this is applied at rc1?

I'm staying out of the crazy license name bikeshedding, so it's going
to be up to the people who have decided they care.

I think whoever *did* care and argued for the change to the SPDX
format is a hopeless wanker. "GPL-2.0{-only,-or-later}" is in no ways
better than the "GPL-2.0{,+}" that was in an earlier version of the
SPDX spec

So I want nothing at all to do with pointless patches. Life is too
short to deal with this.

Other people disagree, so I expect I will get these kinds of stupid
noise patches through the usual channels.

I'm not a great fan of that change either. We have settled on a well
documented and machine readable format. External tools have to be able to
deal with SPDX versions anyway and if we do this now, then we have the next
round of pointless churn in a year when the SPDX folks decide to rename yet
another license identifier which is used in the kernel.

Thanks,

	tglx