Re: [PATCH v2] arch/x86/kvm/ioapic: Remove license boilerplate with bad FSF address

On 28/07/2025 17.36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 05:28:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> From: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
>>
>> The Free Software Foundation does not reside in "59 Temple Place"
>> anymore, so we should not mention that address in the source code here.
>> But instead of updating the address to their current location, let's
>> rather drop the license boilerplate text here and use a proper SPDX
>> license identifier instead. The text talks about the "GNU *Lesser*
>> General Public License" and "any later version", so LGPL-2.1+ is the
>> right choice here.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>   v2: Don't use the deprecated LGPL-2.1+ identifier
> 
> If you look at the LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 file, it says to use:
> 	SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
> 
> as the kernel's SPDX level is older than you might think.

Ok, got it, then please ignore this v2 and use v1 instead.

> Also, doesn't the scripts/spdxcheck.pl tool object to the "or-later"
> when you run it on the tree with this change in it?

I used the scripts/checkpatch.pl which is also supposed to check SPDX tags, 
and it did not complain...

  Thomas