Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI/VGA: Replace full MIT license text with SPDX identifier

[Jani Nikula]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2023, Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Per Documentation/process/license-rules.rst, the SPDX MIT identifier is
> equivalent to including the entire MIT license text from
> LICENSES/preferred/MIT.
>
> Replace the MIT license text with the equivalent SPDX identifier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/vgaarb.h | 30 +-----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vgaarb.h b/include/linux/vgaarb.h
> index 6d5465f8c3f2..341245205e1c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vgaarb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vgaarb.h
> @@ -1,32 +1,4 @@
> -/*
> - * The VGA aribiter manages VGA space routing and VGA resource decode to
> - * allow multiple VGA devices to be used in a system in a safe way.

Why is this being removed?

> - *
> - * (C) Copyright 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> - * (C) Copyright 2007 Paulo R. Zanoni <przanoni@xxxxxxxxx>
> - * (C) Copyright 2007, 2009 Tiago Vignatti <vignatti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Replacing the license text with SPDX is fine, removing copyright notices
is not.

BR,
Jani.

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> - *
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> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
>  
>  #ifndef LINUX_VGA_H
>  #define LINUX_VGA_H

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center