Re: [ASIS-3 patch 1/2] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 369

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Enrico,

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:

I surely appreciate your participation, but can you please trim your
replies, so they still have enough context, e.g.

> On 05.06.19 13:01, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > From: Thomas Gleixner tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
> > 
> >    this software file the file is distributed by marvell international
> >    ltd under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 june
> >    1991 the license you may use redistribute and or modify this file in
> >    accordance with the terms and conditions of the license a copy of
> >    which is available by writing to the free software foundation inc 51
> >    franklin street fifth floor boston ma 02110 1301 usa or on the
> >    worldwide web at http www gnu org licenses old licenses gpl 2 0 txt
> >    the file is distributed as is without warranty of any kind and the
> >    implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular
> >    purpose are expressly disclaimed the license provides additional
> >    details about this warranty disclaimer
> > 
> > extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
> > 
> >    GPL-2.0-only
> > 
> > has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 51 file(s).
> > 
> > Bucket: ASIS-3
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

but do not require the recipients to scroll down 1500 lines of quoted text
to find the meat of your reply, i.e. the single line you added:

> Reviewed-By: Enrico Weigelt <info@xxxxxxxxx>

Tools don't care, but humans who actually read mail care a lot. All the
context is archived and every subscriber has it at his fingertips if
necessary.

Thanks,

	tglx



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