Re: [PATCH v2] spi: s3c64xx: add SPDX identifier

[Philippe Ombredanne]

Andi,

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Replace the original license statement with the SPDX identifier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> this second version unlike v1, where I tried to move the license
> from GPLv2+ to GPLv2, preserves the original licese while adding
> the SPDX identifier.
>
> Andi
>
>  drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c                 | 18 ++++--------------
>  include/linux/platform_data/spi-s3c64xx.h |  4 +---
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c
> index de7df20f8712..baa3a9fa2638 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-s3c64xx.c
> @@ -1,17 +1,7 @@
> -/*
> - * Copyright (C) 2009 Samsung Electronics Ltd.
> - *     Jaswinder Singh <jassi.brar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> - *
> - * 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.
> - */
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +//
> +// Copyright (c) 2009 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
> +//      Jaswinder Singh <jassi.brar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>  #include <linux/init.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
> diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/spi-s3c64xx.h b/include/linux/platform_data/spi-s3c64xx.h
> index da79774078a7..8917f38c97c5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/platform_data/spi-s3c64xx.h
> +++ b/include/linux/platform_data/spi-s3c64xx.h
> @@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
>   * Copyright (C) 2009 Samsung Electronics Ltd.
>   *     Jaswinder Singh <jassi.brar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>   */
>
>  #ifndef __SPI_S3C64XX_H
> --
> 2.15.1
>


You still need to put this line at the very top of the file, first
line. That's the convention for the SPDX tags as documented by Thomas
Gleixner.

> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0


-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne