[U-Boot] SPDX-License-Identifier: adding a comment section?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 29 21:51:22 CEST 2013


Dear Tom,

In message <51F666A4.9060406 at ti.com> you wrote:
>
> > drivers/net/ne2000.h drivers/net/ne2000.c 
> > drivers/net/ne2000_base.h drivers/net/ne2000_base.c
...
> I grabbed (because of the omap watchdog patch) 2.4.17, and that's (a)
> older than our ne2k driver and (b) Already a GPLv2 and not 'or later'.
>  This is, I think, GPL-2.0.

I see. Thanks for pointing out.

> > SPDX-License-Comments:
> > 
> > which could be used to mark a text section that would contain such 
> > explanations.
> > 
> > Wound this make sense, or do you have a better suggestion?
> 
> Sounds good.  In this case we would say something like "Linux Kernel
> driver and eCos driver files both used as reference".

Right.  Thanks !

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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