[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: convert license headers to SPDX tags

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:06:58 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> index a3a98c173..d0e4fd966 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> @@ -1,25 +1,6 @@
>  /*-
> - * GPL LICENSE SUMMARY
> - *
> - *   Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> - *
> - *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - *   it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
> - *   published by the Free Software Foundation.
> - *
> - *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> - *   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> - *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> - *   General Public License for more details.
> - *
> - *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> - *   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> - *   Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> - *   The full GNU General Public License is included in this distribution
> - *   in the file called LICENSE.GPL.
> - *
> - *   Contact Information:
> - *   Intel Corporation
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> + * Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>   */
>  
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt

SPDX looks better, and since this is a kernel file it should follow
the Linux kernel standard.

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
 * Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
 */

You might also want to do the update of year as well.