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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:12:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] pinctrl: sh-pfc: Use the correct style for SPDX
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:59 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 21:55 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > However, if we're touching these lines anyway, shouldn't we be updating
> > the SPDX Identifier to GPL-2.0-only while at it?
>
> Probably better to do that with a treewide script one day.

Yeah... But it's already more than one year after

> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/16/487

and Documentation/process/license-rules.rst (which is the authoritive
rule?) still hasn't been updated...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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