[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Introducing SPDX-License-Identifiers
Tom Rini
trini at ti.com
Thu Jul 25 15:05:51 CEST 2013
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 09:37:36AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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:
>
> SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
OK, with the cmd_io.c fix squashed in (and S-o-B added), and v3 of 1/5
used instead, this is now applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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