Originally posted by pal666
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Originally posted by pal666
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This is something that I hate about the new SPDX.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 is GPL 2.0 Only. As you see all all the btrfs stuff include the documentation.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
This is the or latter clause you can use with GPL-3.0 and all the different is having the + so simple to typo and not see it. It was proposed at first to have GPL-2.0-only and GPL-2.0 as the or latter as well so some people remember the proposal not the ratified. The first proposed in my mind made more sense.
Sorry to say this bootloader might be in some legal trouble.
Question is does using the Oracle copyrighted Btrfs documentation force you to use GPLv2 only license? This is still in the courts being answered with the Google vs Oracle case. If so this is trouble for grub2 as well.
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