[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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