Dear Tom, In message <20180122170607.GL32220@bill-the-cat> you wrote: > > In another thread Felix Brack brought up that as of version 3.0 of SPDX, > there's a number of deprecated tags (see https://spdx.org/licenses/) and > that we're using at least one of them. > > Specifically, "GPL-2.0+" should be "GPL-2.0-or-later".
OK... > Now, we have a few options here: > - Deprecated isn't removed. SPDX specifically says the old links shall > remain valid, etc, etc. We could continue to use "GPL-2.0+", etc and > not have to change (literally) 8000 files. This will also keep us in > line with what the Linux kernel currently does. I also have no idea, > nor have I looked to see if that's going to change. > - Allow both old and new. Both are valid, the newer form allows for > easier tooling and more precise management of options that I'm not > sure apply to our use cases. Both sound not really attractive to me. > - Switch to the new tags. A few hour I imagine of playing around with > sed and then manual fixups and I can probably convert all the existing Umm... where do you expect problems? Running for example fgrep -hR GPL-2.0+ * | sort -u | less gives a realtively short list which looks harmless to me. > cases to the new syntax (we have some DTS files for example with > (GPL-2.0+ OR MIT) which would become (GPL-2.0-or-later OR MIT). But Yes, and why do you think this would be a problem? We have a few other places that don't match current SPDX spcification, like all these GPL-2.0+ BSD-2-Clause GPL-2.0+ BSD-3-Clause GPL-2.0+ or X11 GPL-2.0+ X11 |____GPL-2.0+ but these cases are few and easy to spot. I currentlse see neither the need for "few hour of playing around with sed" nor the need for manual fxes - a plain string substitution should work just fine, and we could even clean up the other inconsistencies whil we are at it. I vote for 3 plus additional cleanup. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot