23/01/2018 16:19, Hemant Agrawal: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:[email protected]] > > > 23/01/2018 14:08, Hemant Agrawal: > > > This patch will be good if you only add SPDX to it and NOT remove the > > original license text. > > > i.e. only do following: > > > > > > > -.. BSD LICENSE > > > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause > > > > > > Around RC2 timeframe, I intend to do that. All the remaining but valid > > license files, we will add SPDX and NOT remove the license text. > > > > Hemant, I don't understand why? > [Hemant] > > Changing license for someone else copyright needs their ACK. However we can > add SPDX without modifying existing license text > There are large number of other copyrights and not everyone is converting > their license to SPDX only. > > In case of linux kernel and uboot, as a first step they just added SPDX to > all files without removing the license text. > > I was thinking of doing the same so that all the files in DPDK should have > SPDX. However, we will not SPDX to files, which are not complaint to DPDK > policy. > We will deal with them separately.
If we don't remove the license now, it will never happen.
