[PATCH v2 08/10] drivers: watchdog: Replace GPL license notice with SPDX identifier

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On 5/12/23 19:46, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:07 AM Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c b/drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c
>> index 504be461f992a9..822bf8905bf3ce 100644
>> --- a/drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c
>> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c
>> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0+
>>  /*
>>   * Watchdog driver for SiByte SB1 SoCs
>>   *
>> @@ -38,10 +39,6 @@
>>   *     (c) Copyright 1996 Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
>>   *                                             All Rights Reserved.
>>   *
>> - *     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> - *     modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>> - *     version 1 or 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> 
> Shouldn't this be
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0 OR GPL-2.0
> (or in current SPDX notation GPL-1.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only) ?
> 

Nope, as it will fail spdxcheck.py. Also, SPDX specification [1]
doesn't have negation operator (NOT), thus the licensing requirement
on the above notice can't be expressed reliably in SPDX here.

[1]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/SPDX-license-expressions/

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