Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the scsi tree with Linus' tree

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:21:15 +0200

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:14:07PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> James,
> 
> > There's two problems.  One is simple terminology: the
> > Documentation/process/licence-rules.rst say:
> >
> > GPL-2.0 means GPL 2 only
> > GPL-2.0+ means GPL 2 or later
> >
> > I believe RMS made a fuss about this and he finally agreed to 
> >
> > GPL-2.0-only
> > GPL-2.0-or-later
> 
> Looks like there are tons of the old style SPDX tags in the kernel. Is
> there going to be a treewide conversion to the new tag format?

Not any time soon.  Both are "valid" for us, and the tools.  We are
focusing on actually tagging all files before we worry about these two
different types of tag that mean the same thing.

thanks,

greg k-h