[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mrvl: convert license headers to SPDX tags

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Mar 9 11:05:08 CET 2018


On 3/9/2018 9:39 AM, Tomasz Duszynski wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tdu at semihalf.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile      | 35 ++++-------------------------------
>  drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c | 36 ++++--------------------------------
>  drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.h | 36 ++++--------------------------------
>  drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_qos.c    | 36 ++++--------------------------------
>  drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_qos.h    | 36 ++++--------------------------------
>  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile b/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile
> index f75e53c..41ae6ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile
> @@ -1,34 +1,7 @@
> -#   BSD LICENSE
> -#
> -#   Copyright(c) 2017 Marvell International Ltd.
> -#   Copyright(c) 2017 Semihalf.
> -#   All rights reserved.

<...>

> +# Copyright(c) 2018 Marvell International Ltd.
> +# Copyright(c) 2018 Semihalf.
> +# All rights reserved.

Hi Tomasz,

Related to the Copyright year update (2017 -> 2018), I am definitely not right
person for legal issues,

but as far as I know that year indicates the year that copyright starts, I
assume you don't want to start your copyright from beginning 2018 but you want
to extend it, for that case year part should be "start - extended", like:
# Copyright(c) 2017-2018 Marvell International Ltd.

cc'ed Hemant who know more than me about licensing.

Thanks,
ferruh


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