[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] net/sfc/base: change license to BSD-3-Clause

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Tue Jan 9 20:59:40 CET 2018


On 01/09/2018 10:38 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 1/8/2018 1:35 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
>> Change license from BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD to BSD-3-Clause.
>> Bump copyright year.
>>
> <...>
>
>> @@ -1,28 +1,8 @@
>> +   SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
>>   
>> -   Copyright (c) 2006-2016 Solarflare Communications Inc.
>> +   Copyright (c) 2006-2018 Solarflare Communications Inc.
>>      All rights reserved.
> Defined syntax has no empty line between SPDX and Copyright line, is that line
> intentionally left?

Yes. I've seen examples, but have not found exact requirement to have
no empty line. We have file with 2 copyright holders and it looks strange
in this case without empty line.

> And not sure if this cause any problem on scripting license checks in the future...

Of course this empty line is not that critical and I can remove it if 
required.

> <...>



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