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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Address issues with SPDX requirements and PEP-263
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On Thu,  5 Sep 2019 16:57:47 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:

> The  description at Documentation/process/license-rules.rst is very strict
> with regards to the position where the SPDX tags should be.
> 
> In the past several developers and maintainers interpreted it on a
> more permissive way, placing the SPDX header between lines 1 to 15, 
> with are the ones which the  scripts/spdxcheck.py script verifies.
> 
> However, recently, devs are becoming more strict about such
> requirement and want it to strictly follow the rule, with states that
> the SPDX rule should be at the first line ever on most files, and
> at the second line for scripts.
> 
> Well, for Python script, such requirement causes violation to PEP-263, 
> making regressions on scripts that contain encoding lines, as PEP-263
> also states about the same.
> 
> This series addresses it.

So I really don't want to be overly difficult here, but I would like to
approach this from yet another angle...

> Patches 1 to 3 fix some Python scripts that violates PEP-263;

I just checked all of those scripts, and they are all just plain ASCII.
So it really doesn't matter whether the environment defaults to UTF-8 or
ASCII here.  So, in other words, we really shouldn't need to define the
encoding at all.

This suggests to me that we're adding a bunch of complications that we
don't necessarily need.  What am I missing here?

Educate me properly and I'll not try to stand in the way of all this...

Thanks,

jon