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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: sun: cassini: Cleanup license conflict
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On 2019/1/19 0:30, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:51 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> The recent addition of SPDX license identifiers to the files in
>> drivers/net/ethernet/sun created a licensing conflict.
>>
>> The cassini driver files contain a proper license notice:
>>
>> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>> * License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>
>> but the SPDX change added:
>>
>> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>
>> So the file got tagged GPL v2 only while in fact it is licensed under GPL
>> v2 or later.
>>
>> It's nice that people care about the SPDX tags, but they need to be more
>> careful about it. Not everything under (the) sun belongs to ...
>>
>> Fix up the SPDX identifier and remove the boiler plate text as it is
>> redundant.
>>
>> Fixes: c861ef83d771 ("sun: Add SPDX license tags to Sun network drivers")
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>> Cc: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>

Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>

>> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Thanks, Thomas.
>
> Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.lee.nelson@gmail.com>
>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c | 15 +--------------
>> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.h | 15 +--------------
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
>> @@ -1,22 +1,9 @@
>> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>> /* cassini.c: Sun Microsystems Cassini(+) ethernet driver.
>> *
>> * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc.
>> * Copyright (C) 2003 Adrian Sun (asun@darksunrising.com)
>> *
>> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> - * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>> - * License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> - *
>> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> - *
>> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> - * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>> - *
>> * This driver uses the sungem driver (c) David Miller
>> * (davem@redhat.com) as its basis.
>> *
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.h
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.h
>> @@ -1,23 +1,10 @@
>> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
>> /* $Id: cassini.h,v 1.16 2004/08/17 21:15:16 zaumen Exp $
>> * cassini.h: Definitions for Sun Microsystems Cassini(+) ethernet driver.
>> *
>> * Copyright (C) 2004 Sun Microsystems Inc.
>> * Copyright (c) 2003 Adrian Sun (asun@darksunrising.com)
>> *
>> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>> - * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>> - * License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> - *
>> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> - *
>> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> - * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>> - *
>> * vendor id: 0x108E (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
>> * device id: 0xabba (Cassini)
>> * revision ids: 0x01 = Cassini
>
>

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