[PATCH] scripts/spdxcheck.py: handle license identifiers in XML comments

From: Lukas Bulwahn
Date: Sat Sep 26 2020 - 15:04:11 EST


Commit cc9539e7884c ("media: docs: use the new SPDX header for GFDL-1.1 on
*.svg files") adds SPDX-License-Identifiers enclosed in XML comments,
i.e., <!-- ... -->, for svg files.

Unfortunately, ./scripts/spdxcheck.py does not handle
SPDX-License-Identifiers in XML comments, so it simply fails on checking
these files with 'Invalid License ID: --'.

Strip the XML comment ending simply by copying how it was done for comments
in C. With that, ./scripts/spdxcheck.py handles the svg files properly.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
---
applies cleanly on current master and next-20200925

Greg, please pick this quick minor patch for your spdx tree. thanks.

scripts/spdxcheck.py | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
index 6374e078a5f2..bc87200f9c7c 100755
--- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py
+++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
@@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ class id_parser(object):
# Remove trailing comment closure
if line.strip().endswith('*/'):
expr = expr.rstrip('*/').strip()
+ # Remove trailing xml comment closure
+ if line.strip().endswith('-->'):
+ expr = expr.rstrip('-->').strip()
# Special case for SH magic boot code files
if line.startswith('LIST \"'):
expr = expr.rstrip('\"').strip()
--
2.17.1