On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:06:07 -0500 Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com wrote:
Hey all,
In another thread Felix Brack brought up that as of version 3.0 of SPDX, there's a number of deprecated tags (see https://spdx.org/licenses/) and that we're using at least one of them.
Specifically, "GPL-2.0+" should be "GPL-2.0-or-later".
Now, we have a few options here:
- Deprecated isn't removed. SPDX specifically says the old links
shall remain valid, etc, etc. We could continue to use "GPL-2.0+", etc and not have to change (literally) 8000 files. This will also keep us in line with what the Linux kernel currently does. I also have no idea, nor have I looked to see if that's going to change.
- Allow both old and new. Both are valid, the newer form allows for easier tooling and more precise management of options that I'm not sure apply to our use cases.
- Switch to the new tags. A few hour I imagine of playing around with sed and then manual fixups and I can probably convert all the
existing cases to the new syntax (we have some DTS files for example with (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) which would become (GPL-2.0-or-later OR MIT). But then we need some tooling to make checkpatch.pl at least noisy about unconverted and to get everyone into the habit of changing and so forth.
At this point in time I'm leaning towards the first, and as is often the case, watching what the kernel does.
+1
Thoughts / comments? Thanks!
Best regards,
Lukasz Majewski
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