From nobody Wed Dec 17 21:26:11 2025 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54D3D27A907 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2025 12:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.133.124 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1759754758; cv=none; b=CsyffrD2RSUvq2rawh71dhm2jAHUTSgqj6yZsbawGbrQnXtJ+FeYwgKY2kq3IOQhoDmWtrVqazAgOJ2KqLtWLLhOgVXvQZQ3SWW3mFVUcA0+pAw8YzzT7cgrh7nsdFkVLcvPifYXiv/cA14jbTFsXqAv5tHQUl4YAiE6HlXByTg= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1759754758; c=relaxed/simple; bh=dowsEgkJEPFVps0A+4frkFrOAiG3M+0V/cXl6r9uJ+g=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=Rxdsby9f8qOgJkjwpPDOjY9tB9gj9pmteyZXDCHGn9Ofu1K+3HV2z5E9/3wG1oHGXKPWEUCLHYQNgcXqaCbSJUY5ToGlAeeBsIKbei4uhLsQ7NTczf9Vh/GD9s+xIjYf5k35CqCgUIi4qk9R/+ZfsqhJmeMqSX6GCxMYH8OBICY= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b=L8/csxdT; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.133.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="L8/csxdT" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1759754756; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=e5xUZ0eK02mfwYoJpN5cCKtC1+gotIbcy90LjoDdTiQ=; b=L8/csxdTewcu/Hx002n4PcLUmR63R3h2SeOV5bD5dFK1pe2Ze+gDeI9lGr7lcyEhI+lzOG BgOCsG6ITL8wTZSrv8oJNPlY26BCNiD2zEU2bh45N2z6zwwcMS3CiDLWVCtkVXIDGU8uNf h0e+vCF/MA1jwpLMtd5k0Qrf9vpOCd4= Received: from mx-prod-mc-03.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-606-WoUDYdFpMF6oEUrJAPwvjQ-1; Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:45:53 -0400 X-MC-Unique: WoUDYdFpMF6oEUrJAPwvjQ-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: WoUDYdFpMF6oEUrJAPwvjQ_1759754752 Received: from mx-prod-int-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.17]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-03.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3F5D1956058; Mon, 6 Oct 2025 12:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thuth-p1g4.redhat.com (unknown [10.44.34.132]) by mx-prod-int-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC72A1955F19; Mon, 6 Oct 2025 12:45:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Thomas Huth To: Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: [PATCH] LICENSES: Add modern form of the LGPL-2.1 tags to the usage guide section Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 14:45:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20251006124548.167944-1-thuth@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.0 on 10.30.177.17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Thomas Huth The modern forms of the LGPL-2.1 tags have already been added as valid a long time ago, see commit bc128349588d5 ("LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers"). However, the information is still missing in the "Usage-Guide" section, so it can currently be confusing whether these tags are allowed in new files or not. Thus add the tags to the usage guide section, too, to make this clear (similar to what we do in the GPL-2.0 file already). Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 b/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 index 105b9f3c5ba12..4d1d06a0e8ffe 100644 --- a/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 +++ b/LICENSES/preferred/LGPL-2.1 @@ -9,9 +9,13 @@ Usage-Guide: guidelines in the licensing rules documentation. For 'GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 only' use: SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 + or: + SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only For 'GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or any later version' use: SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ + or: + SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later License-Text: =20 GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE --=20 2.51.0