Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: usb-audio: Add SPDX id to midi.c

Richard Fontana <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:14:45 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-sound
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 6:42=E2=80=AFPM Tim Bird <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Add an SPDX-License-Identifier line to sound/usb/midi.c
> Use 'BSD-Source-Code' as part of the OR for the
> license id.
>

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This isn't `BSD-Source-Code`.

Richard