On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 03:15:50PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:47 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>

GPL-2.0 license identifier is deprecated, let's use the preferred
identifier: GPL-2.0-only.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>
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Hi Kent, Greg,

I started working on making libgpiod licensing reuse-compliant and noticed
that the reuse-tool is telling me that the GPL-2.0 SPDX identifier in the
GPIO uapi header is deprecated. Since I'm required to copy the header
verbatim into libgpiod's repository, I think we need to fix that at source
first.

 include/uapi/linux/gpio.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
index e4eb0b8c5cf9..3e01ededbf36 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/gpio.h

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */

No, there is no need to convert the kernel to the "latest" spdx level,
when we started out there was no "-only" nonsense (hint no other license
has that crud), and "GPL-2.0" is a totally valid summary of the license.

So please don't go changing it all in-kernel, that way lies madness.
Let's finish fixing up ALL kernel files before worrying about what SPDX
"version" we are at.

But then, the reuse script is telling me:

    Unfortunately, your project is not compliant with version 3.0 of
the REUSE Specification :-(

because I'm using a deprecated license. :(

Go yell at the REUSE people, there's no requirement to have the most
recent version of SPDX, is there?   :)

And if that's the only thing wrong with the project when running 'reuse
lint' then you should be happy, no one will complain at all.

thanks,

greg k-h