netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 09/10] tc: use SPDX

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:32:03 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 09/10] tc: use SPDX

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:34:59 +0100
Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 07:17:11PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Replace GPL boilerplate with SPDX.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>  
> 
> ...
> 
> >  #include <stdio.h>
> > diff --git a/tc/q_atm.c b/tc/q_atm.c
> > index 77b56825f777..07866ccf2fce 100644
> > --- a/tc/q_atm.c
> > +++ b/tc/q_atm.c
> > @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
> >   * q_atm.c		ATM.
> >   *
> >   * Hacked 1998-2000 by Werner Almesberger, EPFL ICA
> > - *
> >   */
> >  
> >  #include <stdio.h>  
> 
> Maybe add an SPDX header here?
> I assume it is GPL-2.0-or-later.
> Or is that pushing our luck?
> 
> >  #include <stdio.h>
> > diff --git a/tc/q_dsmark.c b/tc/q_dsmark.c
> > index d3e8292d777c..9adceba59c99 100644
> > --- a/tc/q_dsmark.c
> > +++ b/tc/q_dsmark.c
> > @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
> >   * q_dsmark.c		Differentiated Services field marking.
> >   *
> >   * Hacked 1998,1999 by Werner Almesberger, EPFL ICA
> > - *
> >   */
> >  
> >  #include <stdio.h>  
> 
> Ditto.

Both q_dsmark.c and q_atm.c for 1st pass on using SPDX
and both had no previous specific license text.

At the time, my arbitrary decision was that if no other license
was specified the original author expected that the code would
be GPL2.0 only like the kernel.