[U-Boot] [PATCH 03/19] fdt: Use SPDX format for licenses in the libfdt headers

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On 17 April 2017 at 07:33, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:13:06PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> >
> > 2017-04-17 22:05 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
> > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 08:22:17PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >
> > >> These should follow the UBoot standard. Update them.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >>  include/fdt.h    | 46 +---------------------------------------------
> > >>  include/libfdt.h | 46 +---------------------------------------------
> > >>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > We're syncing these as-is, right?  If so, just like DTB files, we don't
> > > need to whack in an SPDX tag as that just complicates future re-syncs.
> >
> > Do we have consistent policy for this?
> >
> > For example,
> >
> >   git show 5b8031ccb4e -- scripts/kconfig/
> >
> > ... complicates Kconfig re-syncs?
>
> We ought to be consistent here, and if you happen to stomp on that next
> time you re-sync I really can't complain.  We certainly don't do it in
> dtb files as that's just annoyed upstream when people have tried to push
> the changes back up.  In cases where we are able to 100% drop-in
> upstream files, it's best to not do the conversion.  In other cases, say
> MTD and 78e9e71c83cf, we have other changes, re-sync requires attention
> and we do have some U-Boot'isms, we might as well convert.

These files are not exactly the same, since we have different header
includes and a few other features that are not yet upstream. I am
always comparing the files anyway so it's no bother to ignore the
license at the top. The rest of the libfdt files in U-Boot use SPDX.

Regards,
Simon