Re: [PATCH] samples: replace FSF address with web source in license notices

From: Martin Kepplinger
Date: Wed Nov 15 2017 - 02:47:03 EST


Am 15.11.2017 07:29 schrieb Greg KH:
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having this
still in our source files feels old and unmaintained.

Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users.

As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace the
postal address with "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>" in the samples
directory.

What would be best is to just put the SPDX single line at the top of the
files, and then remove this license "boilerplate" entirely. I've
started to do that with some subsystems already (drivers/usb/ and
drivers/tty/ are almost finished, see Linus's tree for details), and
I've sent out a patch series for drivers/s390/ yesterday if you want to
see an example of how to do it.

Could you do that here instead of this patch as well?


Is there consensus about this? I'm not a layer, but is this clear enough for
useres? And what holds against only adding the new SPDX tag line at the top?

Other than I don't like mixing // and /**/ comments, it indeed looks
quite clean. Is there consensus about the syntax too?

thanks

martin