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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/bnx2x: move SPDX tags to source files
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:07:27 +0200
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Hi,

08/07/2018 07:24, Rasesh Mody:
> We were using LICENSE.bnx2x_pmd to reference inclusion of SPDX licensing
> tag from all the source file. Remove the LICENSE.bnx2x_pmd file and
> directly include SPDX tags in source files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>
> --- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/Makefile
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  #    All rights reserved.
>  #    www.cavium.com
>  #
> -#    See LICENSE.bnx2x_pmd for copyright and licensing details.
> +#    SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

The SPDX line should be the first line.

You can take a look at doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst

Thanks