Re: [PATCH] license: standardize SPDX tag for 3-Clause BSD

Thomas Monjalon
2025-11-12T09:43:23Z

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.