linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files

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Message-ID: <875ym5qpw7.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Mon, 16 May 2022 20:43:52 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files

On Mon, May 16 2022 at 16:22, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:55 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> None of these files
>>
>>      .clang-format, .cocciconfig, .get_maintainer.ignore, .gitattributes,
>>      .gitignore, .mailmap
>>
>> have copyrightable content. They are configuration files which use a
>> publicly documented format.
>
> Should this files remove their SPDX-License-Identifier? If yes, we
> should do that for `.clang-format`.
>
> As another suggestion, we should check that the ignored files actually
> do _not_ have the `SPDX-License-Identifier` (i.e. so the above case
> would trigger a diagnostic).

Good questions. I'm happy to drop this patch for now until this
discussion has been settled.

Thanks,

        tglx