Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] s390/virtio: add BSD license to virtio-ccw

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Fri Nov 24 2017 - 12:19:01 EST


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 05:53:01PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > > Is there any reason to add the whole BSD 3 clause license text? I'd prefer
> > > > if it would be just the simple new SPDX-License-Identifier above.
>
> I added it for consistency with other virtio headers.

Well, one of the points of the SPDX tags is to avoid the countless
duplication of license texts. Adding a license text is easy, removing it
again later is not as easy. Therefore I would prefer to avoid the
duplication here again.

Cornelia, Christian, any opinion here?

Thanks.