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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena@nxp.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] license: standardize SPDX tag for 3-Clause BSD
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:38:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7067595.Whz1cUOskA@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aRRT31JDkFl1hpsI@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com>

12/11/2025 10:31, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:13:35AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Make sure the SPDX tag is used as defined in license/README.
> > Reduce separator to single space.
> > Use parenthesis and uppercased "OR" when a second license is applied.
> 
> Upper-case or is fine, I suppose, but I'm not convinced we need the
> parentheses. However, I see other drivers tend to have it, so let's
> standardize on that.

I'm not convinced as well.

Looking at https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/
it seems we don't need parentheses in general.

Also we should improve our script to check SPDX tag.
Stephen has a patch already in this area.



  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-12  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-12  9:13 Thomas Monjalon
2025-11-12  9:31 ` Bruce Richardson
2025-11-12  9:38   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2025-11-12  9:41     ` Bruce Richardson
2025-11-12  9:43       ` Thomas Monjalon

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