On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 20:12 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > [Linus Torvalds...] > > Having it be the first line of the file is good, it's obvious, and > > stands out, which is the point, you want it to, it's a license :) > > What is good about that? License is about the least interesting thing > about the file. Point of SPDX conversion (see the mail I was replying > to?) was to make license information _less_ intrusive, not more. Tools > can find SPDX anywhere in the file for the people that really care. > > That's how it works in U-Boot, which people are using as example of > reasonable SPDX conversion: > > /* > * Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved. > * Copyright (c) 2010-2011 NVIDIA Corporation > * NVIDIA Corporation <www.nvidia.com> > * > * SPDX-License-ers/ d
> .c: GPL-2.0+ > */ fwiw: I agree with Pavel. My preferred header listing order: // Simple description/purpose // Copyright/Author // License
