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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] change root makefile license to SPDX
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:01:51 +0000
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:59:26AM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> On 12/18/2017 10:00 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 18/12/2017 16:52, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:09:02PM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
> > > > --- a/GNUmakefile
> > > > +++ b/GNUmakefile
> > > > @@ -1,33 +1,6 @@
> > > > -#   BSD LICENSE
> > > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > > >  #
> > > >  #   Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> > > 
> > > Actually, minor comment, can we remove the blank line between the SPDX
> > > identifier and the copyright? Given that in the majority of cases, we
> > > will only have one line each, having a space between them is a) probably
> > > unnecessary, and b) looks weird IMHO.
> > > 
> > > I'm currently working on a patchset to update the meson.build files, and
> > > I think having:
> > > 
> > > # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > > # Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation
> > > 
> > > looks better as a header than two one-line paragraphs.
> > 
> > +1, I agree with Bruce
> > 
> I will fix it.
> However,  I will suggest to not enforced it as a policy. Let the copyright
> owners decide, how they want to place the copyright.

Ok, I can live with that.
I've started work on automatically replacing the license text for Intel
copyright files. Those patch (when done) will use the 2-line, no-space
version. :-)