From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
Subject: [PULL 16/23] scripts/checkpatch: reject license boilerplate on new files
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 11:29:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250522102923.309452-17-berrange@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250522102923.309452-1-berrange@redhat.com>
The previous commit mandates use of SPDX-License-Identifier on common
source files, and encourages it on all other files.
Some contributors are none the less still also including the license
boilerplate text. This is redundant and will potentially cause
trouble if inconsistent with the SPDX declaration.
Match common boilerplate text blurbs and report them as invalid,
for newly added files.
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index da13102eda..9291bc9209 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -365,6 +365,18 @@ our @typeList = (
qr{guintptr},
);
+# Match text found in common license boilerplate comments:
+# for new files the SPDX-License-Identifier line is sufficient.
+our @LICENSE_BOILERPLATE = (
+ "licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL",
+ "under the terms of the GNU General Public License",
+ "under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public",
+ "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge",
+ "GNU GPL, version 2 or later",
+ "See the COPYING file"
+);
+our $LICENSE_BOILERPLATE_RE = join("|", @LICENSE_BOILERPLATE);
+
# Load common spelling mistakes and build regular expression list.
my $misspellings;
my %spelling_fix;
@@ -1497,6 +1509,13 @@ sub process_end_of_file {
"' need 'SPDX-License-Identifier'?");
}
}
+ if ($fileinfo->{action} eq "new" &&
+ exists $fileinfo->{facts}->{sawboilerplate}) {
+ ERROR("New file '" . $fileinfo->{filenew} . "' must " .
+ "not have license boilerplate header text, only " .
+ "the SPDX-License-Identifier, unless this file was " .
+ "copied from existing code already having such text.");
+ }
}
sub process {
@@ -1799,6 +1818,10 @@ sub process {
&checkspdx($realfile, $1);
}
+ if ($rawline =~ /$LICENSE_BOILERPLATE_RE/) {
+ $fileinfo->{facts}->{sawboilerplate} = 1;
+ }
+
if ($rawline =~ m,(SPDX-[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+):,) {
my $tag = $1;
my @permitted = qw(
--
2.49.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-22 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-22 10:29 [PULL 00/23] Misc VNC, I/O, Crypto & checkpatch fixes Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 01/23] ui/vnc.c: replace big endian flag with byte order value Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 02/23] ui/vnc: take account of client byte order in pixman format Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-06-03 11:18 ` Thomas Huth
2025-06-03 11:30 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-06-03 13:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-06-03 14:43 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 03/23] ui/vnc: fix tight palette pixel encoding for 8/16-bpp formats Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 04/23] tests: skip encrypted secret tests if AES is not available Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 05/23] tests: skip legacy qcow2 encryption test " Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 06/23] tests: fix skipping cipher tests when " Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 07/23] crypto: fully drop built-in cipher provider Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 08/23] Revert "scripts: mandate that new files have SPDX-License-Identifier" Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 09/23] scripts/checkpatch.pl: fix various indentation mistakes Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 10/23] scripts/checkpatch: introduce tracking of file start/end Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 11/23] scripts/checkpatch: use new hook for ACPI test data check Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 12/23] scripts/checkpatch: use new hook for file permissions check Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 13/23] scripts/checkpatch: expand pattern for matching makefiles Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 14/23] scripts/checkpatch: use new hook for MAINTAINERS update check Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 15/23] scripts/checkpatch: reimplement mandate for SPDX-License-Identifier Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 17/23] io: Fix partial struct copy in qio_dns_resolver_lookup_sync_inet() Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 18/23] util/qemu-sockets: Refactor setting client sockopts into a separate function Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 19/23] util/qemu-sockets: Refactor success and failure paths in inet_listen_saddr() Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-07-10 12:17 ` Peter Maydell
2025-07-10 12:50 ` Juraj Marcin
2025-07-10 12:55 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-07-10 13:00 ` Peter Maydell
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 20/23] util/qemu-sockets: Add support for keep-alive flag to passive sockets Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 21/23] util/qemu-sockets: Refactor inet_parse() to use QemuOpts Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 22/23] util/qemu-sockets: Introduce inet socket options controlling TCP keep-alive Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-22 10:29 ` [PULL 23/23] scripts/checkpatch.pl: mandate SPDX tag for Rust src files Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-05-23 13:21 ` [PULL 00/23] Misc VNC, I/O, Crypto & checkpatch fixes Stefan Hajnoczi
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