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From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] change root makefile license to SPDX
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:59:26 +0530
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On 12/18/2017 10:00 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 18/12/2017 16:52, Bruce Richardson:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:09:02PM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
>>> --- a/GNUmakefile
>>> +++ b/GNUmakefile
>>> @@ -1,33 +1,6 @@
>>> -#   BSD LICENSE
>>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>>>  #
>>>  #   Copyright(c) 2010-2015 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>>
>> Actually, minor comment, can we remove the blank line between the SPDX
>> identifier and the copyright? Given that in the majority of cases, we
>> will only have one line each, having a space between them is a) probably
>> unnecessary, and b) looks weird IMHO.
>>
>> I'm currently working on a patchset to update the meson.build files, and
>> I think having:
>>
>> # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>> # Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation
>>
>> looks better as a header than two one-line paragraphs.
>
> +1, I agree with Bruce
>
I will fix it.
However,  I will suggest to not enforced it as a policy. Let the 
copyright owners decide, how they want to place the copyright.