[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: update licence for network headers

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Dec 14 13:58:51 CET 2017


14/12/2017 12:33, Hemant Agrawal:
> Thomas,
> 	Before I rework,
> 	What is your opinion w.r.t tooling in DPDK w.r.t SPDX.
> 
> I saw a patch for checkpatch in Linux, which will also check for SPDX 
> presence for any new file, however this patch only checked first two 
> line for SPDX presence. (currently it is nak for other reasons)
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10053699/
> 
> If it makes easy for us, we can use the SPDX as first/second line 
> convention.

I agree we should follow the convention chosen in Linux,
because we may use the same tools.
Is it already decided for Linux? Can we influence the decision for Linux?


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