On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 11:17:22PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 7 Sep 2019, Markus Heiser wrote: > > Am 07.09.19 um 20:04 schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab: > > > No idea. I would actually prefer to just remove the restriction, and let > > > the SPDX header to be anywhere inside the first comment block inside a > > > file [2]. > > > [2] I *suspect* that the restriction was added in order to make > > > ./scripts/spdxcheck.py to run faster and to avoid false positives. > > > Right now, if the maximum limit is removed (or set to a very high > > > value), there will be one false positive: > > Nope. The intention was to have a well define place and format instead of > everyone and his dog deciding to put it somewhere. SPDX is not intended to > replace the existing licensing mess with some other randomly placed and > formatted licensing mess. I find the current style quite unaesthetic: // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only /* * linux/mm/memory.c * * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Linus Torvalds */ I'd much rather see /* * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Linus Torvalds */ but I appreciate the desire to force it to be on the first line if at all possible.
