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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:40:58 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:59 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> There's no real reason not to prefer the latest versions
> over the deprecated ones.

Joe, your pedantic approach is really hard to work with. Please work on it.

The fact is, there *is * a reason to avoid the pedantic "change to new
version" - pointless churn.

We have a lot of the original style spdx markers, because those are
what we started with. And changing them is pointless.

I know you love your scripts to change things around, but to everybody
else it tends to be just extra work and noise.

              Linus