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Date:   Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:04:37 +0100
From:   Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     w@....eu, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        triad@...lth.se, robin@...tonic.nl,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: Replace licenses with SPDX identifiers

Miguel,

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <triad@...lth.se>
> Cc: Robin van der Gracht <robin@...tonic.nl>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
> ---

<snip>

> diff --git a/include/linux/cfag12864b.h b/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> index b454dfce60d9..aa960efc32f6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cfag12864b.h
> @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

Per the doc [1] you should be using instead this in a .h:
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */

I know this can be surprising. This has been discussed on list quite
lot and the doc has some rationale.

<snip>

> diff --git a/include/linux/ks0108.h b/include/linux/ks0108.h
> index cb311798e0bc..2a1c985fedea 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ks0108.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ks0108.h
> @@ -1,25 +1,11 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

Same comment as above.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne