Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc: Add missing SPDX license identifiers

J Lovejoy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
(trying this again, as first time, my message bounced)

I just saw this and have not followed the entire thread from the beginning, but if you are unsure if a given license text to something on the SPDX License List, I highly recommend using the SPDX License-diff browser extension / add-on (for Chrome or Firefox) - once you have that, you can simply highlight a text in your browser window and it will tell you if it matches or how far off it is if not.

If a license is NOT a match to anything on the SPDX License List, please submit it to the SPDX legal team here: https://tools.spdx.org/app/submit_new_license/ (and preferably then tag me in the Github issue, my Github ide is @jlovejoy ) Please make sure to include that it's in the LInux kernel and a link to where you found it. 

More about requesting a new license be added to the SPDX License List can be found here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/request-new-license.md

Thanks!
Jilayne
SPDX legal team co-lead

> On Jan 21, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 6:03 AM Christophe Leroy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Several files are missing SPDX license identifiers.
>> 
>> Following files are given the following SPDX identifier based on the comments in the top of the file:
>> 
>>        include/asm/ibmebus.h:/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR OpenIB BSD */
> [...]
>>        platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c:// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR OpenIB BSD
> 
> "OpenIB BSD" is not a defined SPDX identifier. There is an SPDX
> identifier "Linux-OpenIB"
> https://spdx.org/licenses/Linux-OpenIB.html
> but I believe that is not a match to what's in these files
> (specifically, the wording of the disclaimer), rather I believe what
> you want here is BSD-2-Clause, but you may want to check that.
> 
> Richard
>
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