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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 18:18:35 +0100
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] s390/virtio: add BSD license to virtio-ccw
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > > Is there any reason to add the whole BSD 3 clause license text? I'd prefer
> > > > if it would be just the simple new SPDX-License-Identifier above.
> 
> I added  it for consistency with other virtio headers.

Well, one of the points of the SPDX tags is to avoid the countless
duplication of license texts. Adding a license text is easy, removing it
again later is not as easy. Therefore I would prefer to avoid the
duplication here again.

Cornelia, Christian, any opinion here?

Thanks.