Re: spdxcheck.py complains about the second OR?

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:11:53PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > scripts/spdxcheck.py warns the following two files.
> > 
> > $ ./scripts/spdxcheck.py
> > drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_if.h: 1:52 Syntax error: OR
> > drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_regs.h: 1:52 Syntax error: OR
> > 
> > I do not understand what is wrong with them.
> > 
> > I think "A OR B OR C" is sane.
> 
> Yes it is, but obviously we did not expect files with 3 possible
> alternative licenses.

And I'm kinda happy about this warning because people are overdoing it.
There is no point for the Linux-OpenIB license in this case, as it
is just a BSD license with copy and paste errors.  I think the right
fix is to ask the authors to just drop it.
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