Re: [PATCH 8/8] kbuild, PCI: microchip: comment out MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On 13 Feb 2023, Leon Romanovsky said:

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 04:13:00PM +0000, Nick Alcock wrote:

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So SPDX is usually more precise than the MODULE_LICENSE, but is it more
*accurate*? I have no idea, and I don't see how I could possibly know:
going by the presence of advertising clauses that obviously nobody is
obeying it doesn't seem like we can trust header comments to be any more
accurate than MODULE_LICENSE. Best to just leave both in (and comment it
out so it has no side-effects on the build any more, which is all I'm
after).

You are overcomplicating things.

First, GPL == GPL v2.
Second, SPDX is the right one. License in module is needed to limit
EXPORT_SYMBOL* exposure.
Third, we have git log and git blame to audit and revert any change.
There is no need in leaving (even as commented) dead code.

Agreed. I audited the lot anyway -- all those files I'm touching that
lack SPDXes (14 of them) have copyright headers at the top of the file
anyway, so there is *definitely* no legal implication from dropping
this. Moving to just dropping them in the next round.

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