Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] Introducing SPDX License Identifiers

2017-12-15 Thread Hemant Agrawal
Thanks for all the comments. I will rework and post. Also, my bad for flip-flop but I have to agree with Stephen's suggestion to adapt Linux style. i.e. use SPDX tag in top line or 2nd line for scripts. This is for following reason: 1. DPDK will be using kernel tools such as checkpatch. 2. DP

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] Introducing SPDX License Identifiers

2017-12-13 Thread Wiles, Keith
> On Dec 13, 2017, at 5:38 AM, Bruce Richardson > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:46:23AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> Hi Hemant, >> >> Some comments below >> >> 08/12/2017 08:41, Hemant Agrawal: >>> --- /dev/null >>> +++ b/Licenses/Exceptions.txt >> >> Please use lowercase for fi

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] Introducing SPDX License Identifiers

2017-12-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:46:23AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi Hemant, > > Some comments below > > 08/12/2017 08:41, Hemant Agrawal: > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/Licenses/Exceptions.txt > > Please use lowercase for file and directory. > By the way, the text is referring to exceptions.txt.

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] Introducing SPDX License Identifiers

2017-12-13 Thread Thomas Monjalon
Hi Hemant, Some comments below 08/12/2017 08:41, Hemant Agrawal: > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Licenses/Exceptions.txt Please use lowercase for file and directory. By the way, the text is referring to exceptions.txt. > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ > +This file will record any exceptions in DPDK Project with resp

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] Introducing SPDX License Identifiers

2017-12-07 Thread Hemant Agrawal
The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause license for the core libraries and drivers. The kernel components are naturally GPLv2 licensed. Many of the files in the DPDK source code contain the full text of the applicable license. For example, most of the BSD-3-Clause files contain a full copy of t