From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <olivier.matz@6wind.com> Received: from mail.droids-corp.org (zoll.droids-corp.org [94.23.50.67]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D90237 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:59:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from lfbn-1-6068-189.w90-110.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.110.3.189] helo=droids-corp.org) by mail.droids-corp.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <olivier.matz@6wind.com>) id 1eOK1U-00021Q-8K; Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:05:17 +0100 Received: by droids-corp.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:58:52 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:58:52 +0100 From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com> To: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> Message-ID: <20171211085851.4fefe3obd2g7bmbx@platinum> References: <20171208102830.2817-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com> <eb74dade-439e-dbf4-0455-26100755dd23@intel.com> <f43f61fb-3630-03ba-6328-5935276e1975@solarflare.com> <448cfe74-224b-8a25-6be3-42c70c6ac514@nxp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <448cfe74-224b-8a25-6be3-42c70c6ac514@nxp.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: update licence for network headers X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 08:59:08 -0000 On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:57:41AM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote: [...] > > License text example in [1] starts from Copyright and has All rights > > reserved. > > I agree that template should be clearly specified from the very beginning. > > > > [1] https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause#licenseText > > > Hi all, > Most templates are showing copyright first and SPDX later i.e. the typical > way for writing the license. > > However some projects has followed it other way around to make it easy for > tools i.e. the TOP line. > > I agree with Ferruh that we shall follow single convention. I will prefer > to do it in following way to make it consistent. (I will also fix my change > patches). > > >> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER > >> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER-2 > >> Copyright (C) [YEAR] NAME-OF-COPYRIGHT-HOLDER-3 > >> SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause OK for me, I'll send a v2. Olivier