[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: convert license headers to SPDX tags

[Thomas Monjalon]

23/01/2018 16:19, Hemant Agrawal:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> 
> > 23/01/2018 14:08, Hemant Agrawal:
> > > This patch will be good if you only add SPDX to it and NOT remove the
> > original license text.
> > > i.e. only do following:
> > >
> > > > -..  BSD LICENSE
> > > > +..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > >
> > > Around RC2 timeframe, I intend to do that. All the remaining but valid
> > license files, we will add SPDX and NOT remove the license text.
> > 
> > Hemant, I don't understand why?
> [Hemant] 
> 
> Changing license for someone else copyright needs their ACK. However we can add SPDX without modifying existing license text
> There are large number of other copyrights and not everyone is converting their license  to SPDX only. 
> 
> In case of linux kernel and uboot, as a first step they just added SPDX to all files without removing the license text.  
> 
> I was thinking of doing the same so that all the files in DPDK should have SPDX. However, we will not SPDX to files, which are not complaint to DPDK policy.
> We will deal with them separately. 

If we don't remove the license now, it will never happen.