Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] watchdog: add SPDX identifiers for watchdog subsystem

From: William Breathitt Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:49:55 -0500

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:45:31AM +0100, Marcus Folkesson wrote:
>- Add SPDX identifier
>- Remove boiler plate license text
>- If MODULE_LICENSE and boiler plate does not match, go for boiler plate
>  license
>
>Signed-off-by: Marcus Folkesson <[email-masked]>
>Acked-by: Adam Thomson <[email-masked]>
>Acked-by: Charles Keepax <[email-masked]>
>Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <[email-masked]>
>Acked-by: Michal Simek <[email-masked]>
>---
>
>Notes:
>    v2:
>    	- Put back removed copyright texts for meson_gxbb_wdt and coh901327_wdt
>    	- Change to BSD-3-Clause for meson_gxbb_wdt
>    v1: Please have an extra look at meson_gxbb_wdt.c

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>diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c
>index 2170b275ea01..c173b6f5c866 100644
>--- a/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c
>+++ b/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c
>@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
>+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> /*
>  * Watchdog timer driver for the WinSystems EBC-C384
>  * Copyright (C) 2016 William Breathitt Gray
>  *
>- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
>- * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>- *
>- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>- * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>- * General Public License for more details.
>  */
> #include <linux/device.h>
> #include <linux/dmi.h>

I have no problem with adding a SPDX line to the top of this file, but
use "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only" as I was very intentional
with the selection of GPL version 2 only when I published this code.

Furthermore, please do not remove the existing copyright text; although
it's just boilerplate for some, I was careful with the selection of
these words, and I worry the SPDX line only -- despite its useful
conciseness -- may lead to misunderstandings about my intentioned
license for this code.

For the time being, I can't Ack this patch with the changes it makes
currently:

        Nacked-by: William Breathitt Gray <[email-masked]>

William Breathitt Gray