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Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:16:38 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org>
Cc:     linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, knaack.h@....de, lars@...afoo.de,
        pmeerw@...erw.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jon.Brenner@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] staging: iio: tsl2x7x: use GPL-2.0+ SPDX license
 identifier

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:41:42 -0400
Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org> wrote:

> The summary text for the GPL is not needed since the SPDX identifier
> is a legally binding shorthand that can be used instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org>
I sanity checked against other drivers because I wasn't 100% sure
this wasn't a valid formatting for SPDX.  It doesn't seem to be.
Normally convention is
//SPDX... 
On the first line of the file.
C style comments also fine, but it needs to be a comment line on it's
own.  This is all about making it trivial for automated tools to find.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c | 10 +---------
>  drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h | 14 +-------------
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c
> index eeccfbb0eb1f..9cdcc8c9e812 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c
> @@ -5,15 +5,7 @@
>   * Copyright (c) 2012, TAOS Corporation.
>   * Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org>
>   *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> - * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> - * (at your option) any later version.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> - * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
> - * more details.
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>   */
>  
>  #include <linux/delay.h>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h
> index d382cdbb976e..992ee2465609 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h
> @@ -4,19 +4,7 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (c) 2012, TAOS Corporation.
>   *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> - * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> - * (at your option) any later version.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> - * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for
> - * more details.
> - *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> - * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> - * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA	02110-1301, USA.
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>   */
>  
>  #ifndef __TSL2X7X_H