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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:41:49 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] MIPS changes
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:25 AM Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> wrote:
>
> Documentation/process/license-rules.rst suggests to me that the version
> in the MIPS tree is correct in terms of license name ("GPL-2.0" without
> the "-only" suffix) whilst the version in master is correct in terms of
> comment style ("/* */" rather than "//").

It's actually license-rules.rst that just hasn't been updated. The
"GPL-.2.0" and "GPL-2.0+" naming was considered too terse, so the
modern spdx tag suggestions are "GPL-2.0-only" and "GPL-2.0-or-later".

The full list of all spdx license tags (many of which aren't relevant
for the kernel, of course) can be found at

    https://spdx.org/licenses/

in case you care.

             Linus