Hi Greg,

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:20 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:

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From https://spdx.org/licenses/

"Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more
explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later
version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used
Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0."

Replace the
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
with
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */

Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <redacted>

If you like reading documentation for stuff like this, how about reading
LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 which shows that both examples are just fine
and we are going to stick with that for now as we don't want to do a
wholesale change at this point in time.

In other words, we do not follow the 3.0 version of the SPDX spec as we
think it's pretty silly :)

coreboot however does follow SPDX 3.0 and would like to be able to
consume this file without relaxing their license checks. I do not
think we need wholesale update, but is there reason to not update this
particular file? I am not following SPDX development, so that's why
you got pulled in ;)

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry