Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: convert license headers to SPDX tags

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>]

> -----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. 

Regards,
Hemant