New SPDX-License-Identifier requirement

[Harry Wentland]

On 2018-05-01 04:22 PM, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> I believe it should be :
> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
> 
> But John probably knows best about this
> Oded
> 
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling at amd.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm getting a checkpatch warning with the latest amdkfd-next branch
>> (4.17-rc2) when adding a new file:
>>
>> WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
>> #34: FILE: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/cwsr_trap_handler.h:1:
>>
>> I've read Documentation/process/license-rules.rst but I'm unsure what
>> would be the correct license identifier to go with the license header we
>> use in most of our source files. I think it would be one of these:
>>
>>       // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR MIT
>>       // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause

FWIW Intel uses MIT only:

	SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT 

See drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_query.c and a couple other i915 files.

Harry

>>
>> Can someone confirm.
>>
>> Once that's clarified, we should probably add the appropriate license
>> identifier to all our source files.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Felix
>>
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