Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (ads7871) Switch to SPDX header

[Guenter Roeck]

On 6/11/19 12:19 AM, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> The original license text had a typo ("publishhed") which would be
> likely to confuse automated licensing auditing tools. Let's just switch
> to SPDX instead of fixing the wording.
If you have a look into the upstream kernel, you may notice that
this has already been done. Same for the other patch.

Guenter

> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/hwmon/ads7871.c | 10 +---------
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ads7871.c b/drivers/hwmon/ads7871.c
> index cd14c1501508..7ccc79f77f95 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/ads7871.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/ads7871.c
> @@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>   /*
>    *  ads7871 - driver for TI ADS7871 A/D converter
>    *
>    *  Copyright (c) 2010 Paul Thomas <pthomas8589@xxxxxxxxx>
>    *
> - *  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.
> - *
> - *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or
> - *  later as publishhed by the Free Software Foundation.
> - *
>    *	You need to have something like this in struct spi_board_info
>    *	{
>    *		.modalias	= "ads7871",