[PATCH v2 09/10] udf: Replace license notice with SPDX identifier

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Sat May 13 02:31:09 PDT 2023


On 5/12/23 20:21, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:07 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/fs/udf/ecma_167.h b/fs/udf/ecma_167.h
>> index de17a97e866742..b2b5bca45758df 100644
>> --- a/fs/udf/ecma_167.h
>> +++ b/fs/udf/ecma_167.h
>> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-1.0+ */
>>  /*
>>   * ecma_167.h
>>   *
>> @@ -8,29 +9,6 @@
>>   * Copyright (c) 2017-2019  Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
>>   * All rights reserved.
>>   *
>> - * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>> - * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
>> - * are met:
>> - * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>> - *    notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer,
>> - *    without modification.
>> - * 2. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
>> - *    derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
>> - *
> 
> This is not BSD-2-Clause. Ignoring the interior statement about the
> GPL, I think the closest SPDX identifier might be
> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-Source-Code.html
> but it doesn't quite match.
> 

BSD-2-Clause but the second clause is the third one on BSD-3-Clause.
Weird...

>> diff --git a/fs/udf/udftime.c b/fs/udf/udftime.c
>> index fce4ad976c8c29..d0fce5348fd3f3 100644
>> --- a/fs/udf/udftime.c
>> +++ b/fs/udf/udftime.c
>> @@ -1,21 +1,4 @@
>> -/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> -   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
>> -   Contributed by Paul Eggert (eggert at twinsun.com).
>> -
>> -   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> -   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
>> -   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
>> -   License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> -
>> -   The GNU C Library 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.  See the GNU
>> -   Library General Public License for more details.
>> -
>> -   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
>> -   License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not,
>> -   write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
>> -   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> 
> Shouldn't this be
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later ?
> (or are you implicitly using the obscure LGPLv2.x section ... 3 mechanism?)
> 

That's right. I missed the exact notice above when I submitted this
series.

Thanks.

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