Re: [PATCH v2] license: standardize SPDX tag

Thomas Monjalon
2026-01-28T17:45:02Z

28/01/2026 17:30, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 05:20:52PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > In the Linux Foundation SPDX recommendation,
> > there is no need of parentheses when 2 licenses are possible:
> > https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/
> >
> > The useless parentheses and spaces are removed,
> > the keyword "OR" is uppercased, and the comment starts with /*
> >
> > The script check-spdx-tag.sh is updated to detect some syntax errors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> I actually think this would be better as two patches - one for making the
> changes across the various files and then a second to update the script and
> readme.

Why?
I like when new rules, applying them and checking them
are done in an atomic way.

> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>