Re: [patch 19/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_347.RULE

Richard Fontana <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx
Message-ID <CAC1cPGxHgbx47yGWwp+cqw88bOP1cbWnRXwQuhBnc-7k7Hmgnw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 4:11 PM Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Based on the normalized pattern:
>
>     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 version 2 of the license and no later version
>     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 good title or non
>     infringement see the gnu general public license for more details  you
>     should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
>     with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 51
>     franklin st fifth floor boston ma 02110-1301 usa  the full gnu general
>     public license is included in this distribution in the file called
>     copying

Another example of a possibly significant deviation from GPLv2 in the
disclaimer language.

Richard
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