linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm: DT: imx6-sr-som: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier

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Message-ID: <aGWqIzNvSVw4olz5@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 22:52:35 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	imx@...ts.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: DT: imx6-sr-som: Replace license text comment with
 SPDX identifier

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 11:41:54PM +0200, Bence Csókás wrote:
> Replace verbatim license text with a `SPDX-License-Identifier`.
> 
> The comment heades mis-attributes this license to be "X11", but the
> license text does not include the last line "Except as contained in this
> notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or
> otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
> without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.". Therefore,
> this license is actually equivalent to the SPDX "MIT" license (confirmed
> by text diffing).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>

As Florian has already mentioned, the preferred format for the summary
for arch/arm is "ARM: ... " and by extension for arch/arm/boot/dts,
it's "ARM: dts: ...", not "arm: DT: ..."

Please ensure that *all* your submissions follow this preferred
format.

When in doubt, do a git log on the file(s) you are modifying to
discover what has been used in the past.

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