On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been > decided to make them the first line in files. As Linus put it:
Yes, SPDX tags are used in about a quarter of the files in the kernel. Again, where is this shown to be desired that this goes into _every_ file? If that is so, it needs to be specified _first_ somewhere in the Documentation/ tree. Probably in the process - 1.5 Licensing section. > "The real reason _I_ personally would like to see at least all the new > SPDX lines to go at the very top of the file is that every time when > we have some kind of ambiguity about placement, we end up with > multiple cases, and then people don't notice when merging, and you end > up having two - or you just end up having unnecessary merge conflicts > because two different people picked two different choices)." > > Add a warning if SPDX-License-Identifier tag is not present in the first > line (or 2nd for #! scripts) of files. > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738235/ subscription only link
