Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] devtools: add new SPDX license compliance checker

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:06:23 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 15/07/2020 01:21, Stephen Hemminger:
> > Simple script to look for drivers and scripts that
> > are missing requires SPDX header.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>  
> [...]
> > +#! /bin/sh
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > +# Copyright 2020 Microsoft Corporation
> > +#
> > +# Produce a list of files with incorrect license tags
> > +
> > +errors=0
> > +warnings=0
> > +quiet=false
> > +verbose=false
> > +
> > +print_usage () {
> > +    echo "usage: $(basename $0) [-q] [-v]"
> > +    exit 1
> > +}
> > +
> > +check_spdx() {
> > +    if  $verbose;  then
> > +	echo "Files without SPDX License"
> > +	echo "--------------------------"
> > +    fi
> > +    git grep -L SPDX-License-Identifier -- \
> > +	':^.git*' ':^.ci/*' ':^.travis.yml' \
> > +	':^README' ':^MAINTAINERS' ':^VERSION' ':^ABI_VERSION' \
> > +	':^*/Kbuild' ':^*/README' \
> > +	':^license/' ':^config/' ':^buildtools/' \
> > +	':^*.cocci' ':^*.abignore' \
> > +	':^*.def' ':^*.map' ':^*.ini' ':^*.data' ':^*.cfg' ':^*.txt' \
> > +	':^*.svg' ':^*.png'\  
> 
> I don't agree with this list of files.
> But I guess we can start with that and be more strict in future.

I suppose README, MAINTAINERS, .ini and .txt files could be removed from the exception list.