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

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Mon Nov 27 2017 - 04:16:59 EST


On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:15:14 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/24/2017 06:18 PM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I would prefer to not have the full licence text and only have the SPDX string
> if that is allowed by the licence.
>

Works for me.