linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/21] eeprom: at24: use SPDX identifier instead of GPL boiler-plate

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Message-ID: <2c828644-8797-2ec7-fbd7-a6ef21fa1356@axentia.se>
Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:51:42 +0100
From:   Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/21] eeprom: at24: use SPDX identifier instead of GPL
 boiler-plate

On 2018-03-19 13:12, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-03-19 12:03 GMT+01:00 Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>:
>> Also, use a // style comment for the SPDX line in C files.
> 
> I'm seeing both /* */ and // style comments used for SPDX headers - is
> there any reason not to use /* */ here?

Documentation/process/license-rules.rst states:

2. Style:

   The SPDX license identifier is added in form of a comment.  The comment
   style depends on the file type::

      C source: // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      C header: /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
      ASM:      /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
      scripts:  # SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      .rst:     .. SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      .dts{i}:  // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>

Read more in that file for reasons. If there are none, I personally
think the reason is that "Linus said so". Or something like that?

Cheers,
Peter