Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] s390/virtio: add BSD license to virtio-ccw

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 11/24/2017 06:18 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>>>> Is there any reason to add the whole BSD 3 clause license text? I'd prefer
>>>>> if it would be just the simple new SPDX-License-Identifier above.
>>
>> I added  it for consistency with other virtio headers.
> 
> Well, one of the points of the SPDX tags is to avoid the countless
> duplication of license texts. Adding a license text is easy, removing it
> again later is not as easy. Therefore I would prefer to avoid the
> duplication here again.
> 
> Cornelia, Christian, any opinion here?

I would prefer to not have the full licence text and only have the SPDX string
if that is allowed by the licence.