[PATCH v2] ARM: dts: imx6-hummingboard: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier
Csókás Bence
csokas.bence at prolan.hu
Mon Aug 25 13:52:06 PDT 2025
Hi,
On 2025. 07. 09. 9:28, Bence Csókás wrote:
> Replace verbatim license text with a `SPDX-License-Identifier`
>
> The comment header mis-attributes this license to be "X11", but the
> license text does not include the last line "Except as contained in this
> notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or
> otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
> without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.". Therefore,
> this license is actually equivalent to the SPDX "MIT" license (confirmed
> by text diffing).
>
> On top, half of the files have the fragment "either version 2 of the
> License" for some reason, and not follow up with "or any later version".
> So the resulting SPDX license is still "GPL-2.0-only".
>
> Cc: Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh at solid-run.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence at prolan.hu>
So, Rabeeh, Russell, what do you think? Is there something else I need
to change?
Bence
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