Re: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some kernel files

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 02 2017 - 13:32:24 EST


On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So to me, the "just put it as the first syntactically possible line,
> and just always use the same comment format" is simply to avoid
> unnecessary arguments/conflicts about which of any number of ways you
> *could* do it.

Side note: I'm not going to enforce it, it's just a personal wish to
hopefully make my life easier.

This pull request from Greg already has different comment formats for
different files. I pulled it despite that.

Linus