Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: Replace licenses with SPDX identifiers

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 20:37 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Philippe Ombredanne
> <pombredanne@nexb.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Miguel Ojeda
> > <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
> > > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > > Cc: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>
> > > Cc: Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl>
> > > Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/cfag12864b.h b/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> > > index b454dfce60d9..aa960efc32f6 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> > > @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > 
> > Per the doc [1] you should be using instead this in a .h:
> > /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > 
> > I know this can be surprising. This has been discussed on list quite
> > lot and the doc has some rationale.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/ks0108.h b/include/linux/ks0108.h
> > > index cb311798e0bc..2a1c985fedea 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/ks0108.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/ks0108.h
> > > @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > 
> > Same comment as above.
> > 
> > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
> > 
> 
> Obviously we need a check in scripts/checkpatch.pl, to catch this
> before submission...
> 
> Care to send a patch?

There's one already in progress.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/8/712