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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:41:03 +0000
From:   Dhaval Shah <dhaval.shah@...tnautics.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
CC:     "pali.rohar@...il.com" <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        "platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org" 
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-rbtn: Block comments use * on
 subsequent lines

Hi Joe,

________________________________________
> From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 5:55 PM
> To: Dhaval Shah; Philippe Ombredanne
> Cc: pali.rohar@...il.com; Darren Hart; Andy Shevchenko; platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org; LKML
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-rbtn: Block comments use * on subsequent lines
> 
> On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 10:53 +0000, Dhaval Shah wrote:
> > > > This is different issue. If we need to fix the issue of this if we update SPDX licensing as well.
> > > > I am agree with you on the use of the new SPDX IDs instead of the long legalese.
> > > > For this, we have to add the text "// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0" at the top of the file and remove the
> > > > whole license part and keep on copyright and Author name related info. After change, it looks like
> > > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > > /*
> > > >   *  Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver
> > > >   *  Copyright (C) 2014-2015  Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > > >   */
> > >
> > > And for a short comment block like this, Linus preference is to avoid
> > > mixing comment style and go all the way C++ style as in:
> > >
> > > > // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > > // Dell Airplane Mode Switch driver
> > > // Copyright (C) 2014-2015  Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > >
> > > ... for even less boilerplate ;)
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the link.
> > Do you want to me to update along with SPDX in this patchset with V2 or we will update in the next patchset once this > > >patch merge?
> 
> If anyone does conversions of these license texts
> you have to be _extremely_ careful about what
> specific license identifier you use.

> This license includes the text
>         "or (at your option) any later version"
> which is not the same as using
>         SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
I have given this SPDX ID based on the current license info in the driver. Yeah. I give the authority to author pali.rohar@...il.com to decide the SPDX text.