Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: Replace licenses with SPDX identifiers
From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Sun Feb 18 2018 - 14:05:26 EST
Miguel,
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <triad@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Robin van der Gracht <robin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
<snip>
> diff --git a/include/linux/cfag12864b.h b/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> index b454dfce60d9..aa960efc32f6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Per the doc [1] you should be using instead this in a .h:
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
I know this can be surprising. This has been discussed on list quite
lot and the doc has some rationale.
<snip>
> diff --git a/include/linux/ks0108.h b/include/linux/ks0108.h
> index cb311798e0bc..2a1c985fedea 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ks0108.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ks0108.h
> @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Same comment as above.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne