Re: [PATCH 1/6] include: add SPDX GPL-2.0-only license tags where applicable

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:06:26PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Roland.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 09:42:25PM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this thread has been open for some time now without any more responses.
> > The only motion against it was from Oleksij, who asked me remove the
> > license headers in favour of having only the SPDX-License-Identifier
> > tags.  I replied that I think both the human-understandable license
> > headers and the machine-readable tags have their own value, but there
> > was no further argument.
> I agree with Oleksij here.
> We have the license information we need expressed using the SPDX tag,
> and we shall avoid the remaining license boiler plate.
> 
> If one needs to read the license text it is in the tree.
> And when we do not have it in the file one does not have to read
> it both in the file and in the tree when this is relevant
> to look into.
> The rest of us is just glad to have less boilerplate to
> drag around with.

OK thanks. There was less feedback than I'd hoped for, but what was
there went in the same direction, so I'll spin a v2 without the headers.

 - Roland

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