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> This replaces the custom license information text with the appropriate
> SPDX identifier. While the information here stays the same, it is easier
> to read.
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> Acked-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Acked-by: Harinath Nampally <harinath922@gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
<pombredanne@nexb.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:10:11 +0100
>> Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> wrote:
>>
>>> This replaces the custom license information text with the appropriate
>>> SPDX identifier. While the information here stays the same, it is easier
>>> to read.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
>>> Acked-by: Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
>>
>> I'm not 100% sure the intent of the SPDX work is to remove
>> existing licence text.  So far the big sets have only been
>> adding tags to files missing their licenses entirely...
>>
>> Anyone found any specific guidance on this?
>
> Jonathan:
> you might want to check the doc patches from tglx [1] as well as
> several related patches from greg k-h such as these  [2] and his
> initial pull [3]
>
> To get a lot of details you can check all the recent SPDX-related posts too [4]
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151051532322831&w=2
> [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151068111802610&w=2
> [3] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150963579219623&w=2
> [4] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&w=2&r=1&s=spdx&q=b
> --
> Cordially
> Philippe Ombredanne

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