Re: [PATCH 2/4] clocksource: timer-imx-gpt: Switch to SPDX identifier

From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Tue May 29 2018 - 07:23:10 EST


Hi Daniel,

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 23/05/2018 01:05, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Adopt the SPDX license identifier headers to ease license compliance
>> management.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c | 26 ++++++--------------------
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c
>> index b63b834..165fbbb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c
>> @@ -1,23 +1,9 @@
>> -/*
>> - * Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Deep Blue Solutions
>> - * Copyright (C) 2002 Shane Nay (shane@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> - * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Pavel Pisa (ppisa@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> - * Copyright (C) 2008 Juergen Beisert (kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>> - *
>> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>> - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>> - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
>> - * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
>> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
>> - *
>> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> - * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>> - * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
>> - * MA 02110-1301, USA.
>> - */
>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>> +//
>> +// Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Deep Blue Solutions
>> +// Copyright (C) 2002 Shane Nay (shane@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> +// Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Pavel Pisa (ppisa@xxxxxxxxxx)
>> +// Copyright (C) 2008 Juergen Beisert (kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I went through the code and didn't find any information about the format
> of the lines following the SPDX, it seems it is relatively free.
>
> Can you confirm the above changes are ok ?

This looks fine to me especially if this all you have in terms of top
level comment. (e.g. license then copyrights)
Some may not agree with me on using C++ style comments beyond the SPDX
license line though ;)
--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne