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

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Message-ID: <2f628251-5b67-47e0-8038-6c1aeee1ef91@prolan.hu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 23:56:20 +0200
From: Csókás Bence <csokas.bence@...lan.hu>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
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

Hi,

On 2025. 07. 02. 23:52, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> 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: ..."

Ohh, I misread it, I thought it was just about `imx6: board:` -> 
`imx6-board:`... Ok, I will re-format it for v2.

Bence