On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:41:42 -0400 Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The summary text for the GPL is not needed since the SPDX identifier > is a legally binding shorthand that can be used instead. > > Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> I sanity checked against other drivers because I wasn't 100% sure this wasn't a valid formatting for SPDX. It doesn't seem to be. Normally convention is //SPDX... On the first line of the file. C style comments also fine, but it needs to be a comment line on it's own. This is all about making it trivial for automated tools to find. Thanks, Jonathan > --- > drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c | 10 +--------- > drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h | 14 +------------- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c > index eeccfbb0eb1f..9cdcc8c9e812 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.c > @@ -5,15 +5,7 @@ > * Copyright (c) 2012, TAOS Corporation. > * Copyright (c) 2017-2018 Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > * > - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > - * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > - * (at your option) any later version. > - * > - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > - * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or > - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for > - * more details. > + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > */ > > #include <linux/delay.h> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h > index d382cdbb976e..992ee2465609 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h > +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/light/tsl2x7x.h > @@ -4,19 +4,7 @@ > * > * Copyright (c) 2012, TAOS Corporation. > * > - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > - * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > - * (at your option) any later version. > - * > - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > - * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or > - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for > - * more details. > - * > - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along > - * with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., > - * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. > + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > */ > > #ifndef __TSL2X7X_H _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel