From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: convert license headers to SPDX tags Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:25:33 +0100 Message-ID: <2697444.chTTJ4k8vY@xps> References: <20180109163530.19004-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <2312293.3W7NMydZgg@xps> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org To: Hemant Agrawal Return-path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27061B1BA for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:26:13 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 23/01/2018 16:19, Hemant Agrawal: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net] > > > 23/01/2018 14:08, Hemant Agrawal: > > > This patch will be good if you only add SPDX to it and NOT remove the > > original license text. > > > i.e. only do following: > > > > > > > -.. BSD LICENSE > > > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause > > > > > > Around RC2 timeframe, I intend to do that. All the remaining but valid > > license files, we will add SPDX and NOT remove the license text. > > > > Hemant, I don't understand why? > [Hemant] > > Changing license for someone else copyright needs their ACK. However we can add SPDX without modifying existing license text > There are large number of other copyrights and not everyone is converting their license to SPDX only. > > In case of linux kernel and uboot, as a first step they just added SPDX to all files without removing the license text. > > I was thinking of doing the same so that all the files in DPDK should have SPDX. However, we will not SPDX to files, which are not complaint to DPDK policy. > We will deal with them separately. If we don't remove the license now, it will never happen.