Subject: Re: [v4,1/9] net-next: phy: new Asix Electronics PHY driver

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:43:12 +0100

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:22:39AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/net/phy/asix.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +/* Driver for Asix PHYs
> > + *
> > + * Author: Michael Schmitz <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or modify it
> > + * under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as published by the
> > + * Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the  License, or (at your
> > + * option) any later version.
> > + *
> > + */
> 
> This license information is broken. The SPDX license identifier and the
> boiler plate text are contradicting. The SPDX id is GPL v2 only and the
> boiler plate says v2 or later.

Hi Thomas

Please see:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg544312.html

The first two patches are simple SPDX converstions. Then it gets
interesting trying to sort out license inconsistencies.

	Andrew