My understanding from being on the linux-spdx mailing list is that
this is intentionally tolerated for existing SPDX-License-Identifier
notices because it was correct SPDX syntax under the earlier version
of the SPDX spec.

Richard

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:25 PM Mark Atwood via lists.spdx.org
<atwoodm=amazon.com@...> wrote:

I just got this note from one of my developers.



Is he correct? Should we or someone send a patch to Linux project?



..m





From: REDACTED

Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:26 AM
To: Atwood, Mark <atwoodm@...>
Subject: Invalid SPDX identifier in Linux source tree



Mark,

Sorry for the delay, I'm long overdue in forwarding this to you.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/linux/i2c-dev.h

Contains the following invalid SPDX identifier:

/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note */


The SPDX list of license identifiers (https://spdx.org/licenses/) does not include GPL-2.0+ in any form. The closest would (presumably) be GPL-2.0-or-later.

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