Re: [PATCH v2] random: add proper SPDX header

"Jason A. Donenfeld" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <CAHmME9qOSpjzUhwkXoL9OagBzKj51mPr=f-tNNnLCEQsAdWSmg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Greg,

Thanks for the review. Comments are inline below.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 5:49 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Where did the "or later" come from?  I don't see that in the original
> text.

Yea, this part seems a little bit ambiguous:

> > - * ALTERNATIVELY, this product may be distributed under the terms of
> > - * the GNU General Public License, in which case the provisions of the GPL are
> > - * required INSTEAD OF the above restrictions.  (This clause is
> > - * necessary due to a potential bad interaction between the GPL and
> > - * the restrictions contained in a BSD-style copyright.)
>
> I do not see a "or later" here.

I don't see a "2.0" either. I think we can infer from context that it
couldn't have been < 2.0. So in the absence of a number, maybe this
means >= 2.0, and hence "or later"? Or since at the time it probably
meant 2.0, do we infer this to mean == 2.0? I really have no idea,
which is why I'm glad this list exists.

It sounds like your perspective is that this is == 2.0?

> > diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h
> > index e92efb39779c..1a6861aa1277 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/random.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/random.h
> > @@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
> >  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > -/*
> > - * include/linux/random.h
> > - *
> > - * Include file for the random number generator.
> > - */
>
> This doesn't have to do with the SPDX change in the other file, it
> belongs in a different patch, sorry.

Ack.

Jason
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.