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[204.195.96.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-b842a56c552sm2413547166b.68.2026.01.13.22.00.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:00:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:00:22 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Bruce Richardson , dev@dpdk.org, Hemant Agrawal , Sachin Saxena Subject: Re: [PATCH] license: standardize SPDX tag for 3-Clause BSD Message-ID: <20260113220022.65ab97d2@phoenix.local> In-Reply-To: <3883425.DVCPrJfaZc@thomas> References: <20251112091335.662991-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <7067595.Whz1cUOskA@thomas> <3883425.DVCPrJfaZc@thomas> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:43:16 +0100 Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 12/11/2025 10:41, Bruce Richardson: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:38:44AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 12/11/2025 10:31, Bruce Richardson: > > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:13:35AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > > Make sure the SPDX tag is used as defined in license/README. > > > > > Reduce separator to single space. > > > > > Use parenthesis and uppercased "OR" when a second license is applied. > > > > > > > > Upper-case or is fine, I suppose, but I'm not convinced we need the > > > > parentheses. However, I see other drivers tend to have it, so let's > > > > standardize on that. > > > > > > I'm not convinced as well. > > > > > > Looking at https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/ > > > it seems we don't need parentheses in general. > > > > > Shall we just avoid fixing the parens until we definitively decide on that. > > Just standardize on spacing and upper case "OR"? Whatever approach you > > decide for this release, you can keep my ack. > > I plan to rework this patch by standardizing without parentheses, > and add more checks. Ping. Yes paren's look wrong.