Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] PCI/VGA: Replace full MIT license text with SPDX identifier

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Hi,

On 2023/6/9 18:58, Jani Nikula wrote:
On Fri, 09 Jun 2023, Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Per Documentation/process/license-rules.rst, the SPDX MIT identifier is
equivalent to including the entire MIT license text from
LICENSES/preferred/MIT.

Replace the MIT license text with the equivalent SPDX identifier.

Signed-off-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  include/linux/vgaarb.h | 30 +-----------------------------
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vgaarb.h b/include/linux/vgaarb.h
index 6d5465f8c3f2..341245205e1c 100644
--- a/include/linux/vgaarb.h
+++ b/include/linux/vgaarb.h
@@ -1,32 +1,4 @@
-/*
- * The VGA aribiter manages VGA space routing and VGA resource decode to
- * allow multiple VGA devices to be used in a system in a safe way.
Why is this being removed?

- *
- * (C) Copyright 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- * (C) Copyright 2007 Paulo R. Zanoni <przanoni@xxxxxxxxx>
- * (C) Copyright 2007, 2009 Tiago Vignatti <vignatti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Replacing the license text with SPDX is fine, removing copyright notices
is not.

Sorry, I'm mindless

I should keep the copyright notices(original authors) there.

I will respin this patch. Thanks for pointed out.

BR,
Jani.

- *
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
- * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
- * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
- * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
- * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
- * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- *
- * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
- * paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
- * Software.
- *
- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
- * THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
- * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
- * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
- * DEALINGS
- * IN THE SOFTWARE.
- *
- */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
#ifndef LINUX_VGA_H
  #define LINUX_VGA_H

--
Jingfeng




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