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

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Message-ID: <CANiq72kSqKqoUsiFhg0+a65vc3KPTW4zpt-Dh8geVWUMPkWFwg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 May 2022 16:22:57 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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 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).

Cheers,
Miguel