Re: [PATCH] media: v4l2-core: v4l2-mc: Add SPDX license identifier

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Thu Jan 11 2018 - 07:54:48 EST


Hi Shuah,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:35:36 EET Shuah Khan wrote:
> Replace GPL license statement with SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c | 11 +----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c
> b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c index 303980b71aae..1297132acd4e 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mc.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */

The header doesn't match the existing license.

Furthermore, unless I'm mistaken, the standard comment style for SPDX headers
in the kernel is //, not /* ... */

> /*
> * Media Controller ancillary functions
> *
> @@ -5,16 +6,6 @@
> * Copyright (C) 2016 Shuah Khan <shuahkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> * Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Nokia Corporation
> * Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corporation.
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> - * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> - * (at your option) any later version.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
> */
>
> #include <linux/module.h>

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart