[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ena: change license clause to SPDX tags

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Fri Sep 27 07:32:02 CEST 2019


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Ferruh Yigit
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:17 PM
> To: Maciej Bielski <mba at semihalf.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Marcin Wojtas <mw at semihalf.com>; Michal Krawczyk
> <mk at semihalf.com>; Guy Tzalik <gtzalik at amazon.com>; Evgeny Schemeilin
> <evgenys at amazon.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ena: change license clause to SPDX tags
> 
> On 9/26/2019 1:31 PM, Maciej Bielski wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Maciej Bielski <mba at semihalf.com>
> > Acked-by: Michal Krawczyk <mk at semihalf.com>
> 
> <...>
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ena/meson.build b/drivers/net/ena/meson.build
> > index 091ca6e3f..c7e71f494 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ena/meson.build
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ena/meson.build
> > @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause -# Copyright(c) 2018 Intel
> > Corporation
> > +# Copyright(c) 2015-2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
> > +# All rights reserved.
> >
> 
> This part is changing the copyright owner, it is under the ena driver but still is
> there a reason to change the owner?
> 
> Overall this is a meson file, I personally don't see the meaning of having a
> copyright in a meson file, but trying to be fair.
> 
> Would you mind keeping the original copyright for the file?
[Hemant] Not sure, if you kept the Intel's copyright by mistake or you copied this file from other driver having Intel's copyright.
You may like to keep add yours, but not delete the old one. 


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