[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: convert license headers to SPDX tags

[Hemant Agrawal]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> 23/01/2018 16:19, Hemant Agrawal:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> >
> > > 23/01/2018 14:08, Hemant Agrawal:
> > > > This patch will be good if you only add SPDX to it and NOT remove
> > > > the
> > > original license text.
> > > > i.e. only do following:
> > > >
> > > > > -..  BSD LICENSE
> > > > > +..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > > >
> > > > Around RC2 timeframe, I intend to do that. All the remaining but
> > > > valid
> > > license files, we will add SPDX and NOT remove the license text.
> > >
> > > Hemant, I don't understand why?
> > [Hemant]
> >
> > Changing license for someone else copyright needs their ACK. However
> > we can add SPDX without modifying existing license text There are large
> number of other copyrights and not everyone is converting their license  to
> SPDX only.
> >
> > In case of linux kernel and uboot, as a first step they just added SPDX to
> all files without removing the license text.
> >
> > I was thinking of doing the same so that all the files in DPDK should have
> SPDX. However, we will not SPDX to files, which are not complaint to DPDK
> policy.
> > We will deal with them separately.
> 
> If we don't remove the license now, it will never happen.

I have the same fear. But we can not remove other's license text without their explicit approval. 

W.r.t DPDK project priorities: License compliance is important than cleanup. 

Let's target following:
1.  100% compliance by 18.05
2.  100% Cleanup by 18.08 or 18.11

- Hemant