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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 01/10] Add auxiliary bus support
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:21 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 09:12:51AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Per above SPDX is v2 only, so...
> > >
> > > Isn't it default for the Linux kernel?
> >
> > SPDX eliminated the need to guess a default, and MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
> > implies the "or later" language. The only default assumption is that
> > the license is GPL v2 compatible, those possibilities are myriad, but
> > v2-only is the first preference.
>
> No, MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") does not imply "or later" at all. Please see
> include/linux/module.h, it means "GPL version 2".
>

Oh, I did, and stopped before getting to:

"only/or later" distinction is completely irrelevant and does neither
*replace the proper license identifiers in the corresponding source file

...sorry for the noise.

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