Re: [PATCH] USB: add SPDX identifiers to all files in drivers/usb/

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And, to take it to the next conclusion, if we have the SPDX identifier,
> we can get rid of the "boilerplate" GPL license crap as well, right?
>
> How about this example patch of just 2 files, we could drop so many
> lines that we are all tired of reading over and over...

Greg:

Exactly! And the tool [0] I used to detect the licenses can also
collect the exact matched text: so based on this we could craft a
script to do the grunt work of deleting the boilerplate and be
reasonably smart about it:

 - focus on GPL first, ignoring BSD/MIT for now
 - only take out unambiguous boilerplate that is matched exactly
 - and only take it out if there a proper and corresponding
   license identifier already there, or add one otherwise

[0] https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne