From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C300D48AEC; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:38:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC464066D; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:38:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from fhigh-a1-smtp.messagingengine.com (fhigh-a1-smtp.messagingengine.com [103.168.172.152]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3535402E1 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:38:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from phl-compute-06.internal (phl-compute-06.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailfhigh.phl.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2B8140017A; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:38:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from phl-mailfrontend-02 ([10.202.2.163]) by phl-compute-06.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:38:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:date :date:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:reply-to:subject:subject:to:to; s=fm3; t=1762940326; x=1763026726; bh=1ntOq0XB/g7NjWD7+SBDVh5cIv5G5aPREgFYarQzFTU=; b= pcLHgUfqFZQ1wND1Uuf7YeaVkayBszg2VPBcwSN4h+psPoNr53qofrF0sLnkiFLn gPi9T7hnzStruG6XhC38FsXIgK7JlAJymMqXyH5j2FRG084EeFZ5wPOzIEf8uxS/ BrnwrbQbHk2NGLMy/2NzfNxFVKyrZoZR6S1McXkB/Jp2YgPoEuJiFq2zd174w+lW +n+6EjTJuZfArlz4/WXvmtwEqb9p1JJvTwrsXQFX5fURunh1JcIsB9phEfBnnyJM 8r+kw0+Qd2gZ+94t7fNPDQKrAvwGRo0ytSKmxZRrToSCDBYfKxOMlmPuUZpYIOee iCwj6hXjokGaybFBSkuJJA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:content-type:date:date:feedback-id:feedback-id :from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:reply-to:subject:subject:to:to:x-me-proxy :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; t=1762940326; x= 1763026726; bh=1ntOq0XB/g7NjWD7+SBDVh5cIv5G5aPREgFYarQzFTU=; b=f 7A08b3gckdBsTLW69ivbSxFw32ZCpO3HbRkI+jscjFXsTMxwbSBTzuUijoWKnVgi YGQiQWs5cTGuYOzlY/1QaoQmt02c0azWMKq6ilVkT2G9io1vOVsY3Ag2KxX/zyrG DctRK+Os409o5Wn8jR+9XEvzb1+fRirCsY2l/hlwhJ0mxtH0tHIuQ+qtTP0jXGlB 6LpihuunRbSQoIeEoStldPkND6gi45lnVLxCowDJ5++2ukf6nnfNN37b0r3Kdqh9 itBW0dtuxEBaVbkwWaC8qT9NULBAAa0K5ZQLEYhHaFrYSk7A6aL93kLMPV3ZCrT7 uiUCcaEdsnYv9WVhKBOXA== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeeffedrtdeggddvtdefjeefucetufdoteggodetrf dotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgenuceu rghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmnecujf gurhephffvvefufffkjghfggfgtgesthfuredttddtjeenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhmrghs ucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenucggtf frrghtthgvrhhnpeevledtudetjeekueekhfdvieeileefgfelgeeiieekleegveelieet gffguefhtdenucffohhmrghinhepshhpugigrdguvghvnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivg eptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomhepthhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdr nhgvthdpnhgspghrtghpthhtohephedpmhhouggvpehsmhhtphhouhhtpdhrtghpthhtoh epsghruhgtvgdrrhhitghhrghrughsohhnsehinhhtvghlrdgtohhmpdhrtghpthhtohep uggvvhesughpughkrdhorhhgpdhrtghpthhtohephhgvmhgrnhhtrdgrghhrrgifrghlse hngihprdgtohhmpdhrtghpthhtohepshgrtghhihhnrdhsrgigvghnrgesnhigphdrtgho mhdprhgtphhtthhopehsthgvphhhvghnsehnvghtfihorhhkphhluhhmsggvrhdrohhrgh X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: i47234305:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:38:45 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Bruce Richardson Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Hemant Agrawal , Sachin Saxena , Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] license: standardize SPDX tag for 3-Clause BSD Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:38:44 +0100 Message-ID: <7067595.Whz1cUOskA@thomas> In-Reply-To: References: <20251112091335.662991-1-thomas@monjalon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org 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.