[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] devtools: add new SPDX license compliance checker

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:12:30AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:06:23 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > 15/07/2020 01:21, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > Simple script to look for drivers and scripts that
> > > are missing requires SPDX header.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>  
> > [...]
> > > +#! /bin/sh
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > > +# Copyright 2020 Microsoft Corporation
> > > +#
> > > +# Produce a list of files with incorrect license tags
> > > +
> > > +errors=0
> > > +warnings=0
> > > +quiet=false
> > > +verbose=false
> > > +
> > > +print_usage () {
> > > +    echo "usage: $(basename $0) [-q] [-v]"
> > > +    exit 1
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +check_spdx() {
> > > +    if  $verbose;  then
> > > +	echo "Files without SPDX License"
> > > +	echo "--------------------------"
> > > +    fi
> > > +    git grep -L SPDX-License-Identifier -- \
> > > +	':^.git*' ':^.ci/*' ':^.travis.yml' \
> > > +	':^README' ':^MAINTAINERS' ':^VERSION' ':^ABI_VERSION' \
> > > +	':^*/Kbuild' ':^*/README' \
> > > +	':^license/' ':^config/' ':^buildtools/' \
> > > +	':^*.cocci' ':^*.abignore' \
> > > +	':^*.def' ':^*.map' ':^*.ini' ':^*.data' ':^*.cfg' ':^*.txt' \
> > > +	':^*.svg' ':^*.png'\  
> > 
> > I don't agree with this list of files.
> > But I guess we can start with that and be more strict in future.
> 
> I suppose README, MAINTAINERS, .ini and .txt files could be removed from the exception list.

We also want to scan the files in config and buildtools.