Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of
> scripts/spdxcheck.py, and placed the corresponding patches at:
> 
> 	https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=spdx_pedantic

Overall seems very nice, thanks.

Couple nits.

Some of the scripts and py files move the author
block into a description or add unnecessary blank
comments.  These may use some manual fixups.

For instance:

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh
index f12a4e2..ff610ec 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/record+probe_libc_inet_pton.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 # probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping
 # Installs a probe on libc's inet_pton function, that will use uprobes,
@@ -6,8 +7,6 @@
 # with the a backtrace 3 levels deep, check that it is what we expect.
 # This needs no debuginfo package, all is done using the libc ELF symtab
 # and the CFI info in the binaries.
-
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 # Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>, 2017
 
  . $(dirname $0)/lib/probe.sh

and

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tcp_client.py b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tcp_client.py
index a53ed58..c2ee17d 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tcp_client.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tcp_client.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-#
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #
+#

> what's the "very first line" where a
> SPDX header tag should be on a man page?

Beats me.
This says man pages are documents,
https://spdx.org/rdf/ontology/spdx-2-0-rev-7/individuals/usageType_document___85292652.html