Re: [PATCH V2] license-rules.rst and LICENSES: Use only spdx version 3 with -only and -or-later
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-08-22 20:12:09
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:47:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
Perhaps it's better to stick to a single SPDX version style for all kernel files. Right now, there are already several -only and -or-later uses. $ git grep -P 'SPDX-License-Identifier.*(?:-or-later|-only)'| wc -l 144 So perhaps a patch and a tool to do the reverse conversion:
No. Any tool which does anything useful just has to understand both 2.0 and 3.0 naming. They're aliases for each other, that's all.