On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:36:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Tom Rini, > > In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > This file is GPL-2.0 with Freescale granting rights for GPL-2.0+. This > > part was dropped by accident in the SPDX updates. > > Sorry, but this doesn't work. > > > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c > > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c > > @@ -14,7 +14,14 @@ > > * Copyright (C) 2008 Nokia Corporation: drop_ffs() function by > > * Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]> from mtd-utils > > * > > - * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > > + * Copyright 2010 Freescale Semiconductor > > + * The portions of this file whose copyright is held by Freescale and which > > + * are not considered a derived work of GPL v2-only code may be distributed > > + * and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > > + * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the > > + * License, or (at your option) any later version. > > + * > > + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > > The idea of the Licnese IDs is that you just grep for these lines to > produce proper information about the license status of the file. > Here, the special clause would be totally missed. > > I don't know of any (even halfway) established method to express such > a situation where different licenses apply to certain parts of a file > in terms of Lincese IDs. The only clean way to solve this I can think > of at this time is to define a new License ID (GPL-2.0-FSL+ ?) and > move this explanation to a file in the Licenses/ directory. > > But I still see a pretty serious problem with the fact that the text > is completely unspecific - or do we have any clear understanding for > which exact parts of the file the "copyright is held by Freescale and > which are not considered a derived work of GPL v2-only code" ? > > We need to know exactly the lines of code this applies to; otherwise I > think the only safe way to solve this issue is by licensing the whole > file as GPL-2.0.
I'd be fine with this solution, really (and calling common/cmd_nand.c which is missing a specific tag but also has the Freescale bit) as GPL-2.0 as well. I'll shoot that out in the morning then, assuming no one disagrees with that idea. -- Tom
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