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Date:   Sat, 28 Mar 2020 08:20:31 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
        linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, rajatxjain@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: input-event-codes.h: Update the deprecated license
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:48:32PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> >From https://spdx.org/licenses/
> 
> "Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more
> explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later
> version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used
> Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0."
> 
> Replace the
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> with
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@google.com>

If you like reading documentation for stuff like this, how about reading
LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 which shows that both examples are just fine
and we are going to stick with that for now as we don't want to do a
wholesale change at this point in time.

In other words, we do not follow the 3.0 version of the SPDX spec as we
think it's pretty silly :)

thanks,

greg k-h