[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Introducing SPDX-License-Identifiers

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Jul 11 22:35:01 CEST 2013


Dear Wolfgang Denk,

> Like many other projects, U-Boot has a tradition of including big
> blocks of License headers in all files.  This not only blows up the
> source code with mostly redundant information, but also makes it very
> difficult to generate License Clearing Reports.  An additional problem
> is that even the same lincenses are referred to by a number of
> slightly varying text blocks (full, abbreviated, different
> indentation, line wrapping and/or white space, with obsolete address
> information, ...) which makes automatic processing a nightmare.
> 
> To make this easier, such license headers in the source files will be
> replaced with a single line reference to Unique Lincense Identifiers
> as defined by the Linux Foundation's SPDX project [1].  For example,
> in a source file the full "GPL v2.0 or later" header text will be
> replaced by a single line:

I think we have a winner for this round of u-boot commit statistics ;-)

For the MXS part and PXA part, series:

Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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