Nishanth, On Fri, Jul 02 2021 at 20:21, Nishanth Menon wrote: > Commit bc41a7f36469 ("LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license") > unfortunately introduced LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 in UTF-8 Unicode text Sigh. Why are people adding such things w/o running this script in the first place. > While python will barf at it with: > > FAIL: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2109: ordinal not in range(128) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 244, in <module> > spdx = read_spdxdata(repo) > File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 47, in read_spdxdata > for l in open(el.path).readlines(): > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2109: ordinal not in range(128) > > While it is indeed debatable if 'Licensor.' used in the license file > needs unicode quotes, instead, let us force spdxcheck to read utf-8 > instead. s/let us// Ditto for the $subject. See Documentation/process/ for further enlightment. > Reported-by: Rahul T R <r-ravikumar@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> With that fixed: Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>