linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 7/7] scripts: Add SPDX checker script

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Message-ID: <CAOFm3uGECug6Hr8_UJt5QTGd_=Fae_Hvm_1Y9xyJri008EoHEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 16:35:50 +0200
From:   Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 7/7] scripts: Add SPDX checker script

Thomas,
Sorry for the very late reply!

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> The SPDX-License-Identifiers are growing in the kernel and so grow
> expression failures and license IDs are used which have no corresponding
> license text file in the LICENSES directory.
>
> Add a script which gathers information from the LICENSES directory,
> i.e. the various tags in the licenses and exception files and then scans
> either input from stdin, which it treats as a single file or if started
> without arguments it scans the full kernel tree.
>
> It checks whether the license expression syntax is correct and also
> validates whether the license identifiers used in the expressions are
> available in the LICENSES files.

Looking good to me! And the use of ply is sleek.
-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne