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

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Date:   Mon, 16 May 2022 12:27:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-spdx@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files

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.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 scripts/spdxexclude |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/scripts/spdxexclude
+++ b/scripts/spdxexclude
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 #
 # Patterns for excluding files and directories
 
+# Ignore dot files:
+# .clang-format, .cocciconfig, .get_maintainer.ignore
+# .gitattributes, .gitignore, .mailmap
+# do not really have copyrightable content
+.*
+
 # Ignore the license directory and the licensing documentation which would
 # create lots of noise for no value
 LICENSES/