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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 22:08:23 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
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Subject: Re: License info
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:53:29PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
> 
> > What is your position regarding license information? Should the standard GPL-V2 
> > boiler plate be replaced with "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" in wireless files?
> 
> "GPL-2.0" tag is deprecated [0] .
> 
> 
> It should be used:
> for GNU General Public License v2.0 only:     "GPL-2.0-only"
> for GNU General Public License v2.0 or later: "GPL-2.0-or-later"

Please read Documentation/process/license-rules.rst.  We are sticking
with the "old" SPDX identifiers for now as they changed after we already
started marking up the kernel source tree.

thanks,

greg k-h