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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] doc: add SPDX Licence to doc files
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 12:39:29 +0200
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10/04/2018 06:38, Hemant Agrawal:
> On 4/9/2018 7:24 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > On 4/9/2018 2:11 PM, Marko Kovacevic wrote:
> >> Added SPDX headers to doc files to have them aligned with
> >> the other doc files.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> > 
> > <...>
> > 
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_02.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst           | 3 +++
> >>   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst             | 3 +++
> > 
> > Hi Hemant,
> > 
> > What does it mean to have a license header in release notes?
> > It looks unnecessary from both license and copyright point of view, is there a
> > legal requirement for it?
> > 
> > Indeed I was thinking removing the header from the release notes that has it...
> 
> LF legal reported it as missing license. All other *.rst files have the 
> license headers.
> 
> Let me check it with LF Legal.

It has been recommended to add SPDX tags to release notes,
with a global copyright on behalf of all contributors, or community.

We need a v2 of this patch, thanks.