| Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:27:59 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/9] ARM: S3C24XX: Fix invalid SPDX identifier |
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:02:11AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > GPL-1.0 is not part of the valid identifier list and as its meaning is GPL > version 1.0 only this would be incompatible with the kernel license. > > As this code was included into the kernel, assume its GPL-1.0+ > > Fixes: 84b2170109e4 ("ARM: S3C24XX: Add SPDX license identifiers")
Before that commit the file just said GNU General Public License and referred to the COPYING file. Which to me suggests it is at best GPL-2.0+ if not GPL-2.0.
Hopefully the original author can still be reached to clear this up.
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