From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27061B1BA for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:26:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD1420CEB; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:26:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:26:13 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=bPXd7ALiIcz4l+TvS+igzdKY26 CUHfYLxnX+l0rsJJs=; b=ekXzgnUr9KbRZqGHcCYUT8rStUy+/1Y9ZTzDVuAfss XqnKw9uArWqyW79y65FQZ+m0Bwf4osU2lmEQ+d69chM7EvZkVyMnfAuFAuLktilb /2bS1CbKAI9Ddyhw0aYHda5tnQ/77BFr9n1TF9kvKA8hUaJRPhxyu98cg+4rx79D Y= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=bPXd7A LiIcz4l+TvS+igzdKY26CUHfYLxnX+l0rsJJs=; b=PK/nAyWgGnrDilLzPZCQ2s QuWUgfVpvSN1e+CV2sVNiNVjl2lNJQ+5A84W/Sdq1ThiAdcYibIZtwEbHrK8riqf OsVXfEy7TB3DU71knbUIQPRMV/0eLa0MXD3UE3x65s1UYchcsE2Vh5K2ZyPcOa21 3w2OhLHpz8CDQ5a5mMc7hjytXYyS+5Avvgpy5JIfk9ZKJqegnpNZmiTf1/9cfGGQ beWJZOND/XmwKcaMle57QLxbFX9UT69/4zd2ygs109Oo0q03CFW8vMUbs3Yd22Jl sa/oHp1+qrlERyvYSTTnPkrrWxpEK0tWdhoOW0GAek55WJemQbCfNQk/faIvW7sw == X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DBEBF7E0FA; Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:26:12 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Hemant Agrawal Cc: Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:25:33 +0100 Message-ID: <2697444.chTTJ4k8vY@xps> In-Reply-To: References: <20180109163530.19004-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <2312293.3W7NMydZgg@xps> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: convert license headers to SPDX tags X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:26:13 -0000 23/01/2018 16:19, Hemant Agrawal: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@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.