[PATCH 1/6] src/tools: add SPDX tags to all files

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 06:57:20PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files as the Linux kernel
> > diff --git a/src/tools/config.c b/src/tools/config.c
> > index 6ff03767f9e6..312cbcdd7a85 100644
> > --- a/src/tools/config.c
> > +++ b/src/tools/config.c
> > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >  /* Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved. */
> >
> >  #include <arpa/inet.h>
> > diff --git a/src/tools/config.h b/src/tools/config.h
> > index 63a272cc1285..e3ad9f87404b 100644
> > --- a/src/tools/config.h
> > +++ b/src/tools/config.h
> > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >  /* Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>. All Rights Reserved. */
> 
> It looks like you're giving .h a /* style comment and .c a // style
> comment. Is there a reason for this, or did you just have two
> different sed commands by accident?

There's is a reason for it, please see:
	https://lwn.net/Articles/739183/
and the email thread on lkml about this, specifically the email with
this subject:
	Subject: [patch V4 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

It goes into why .c files should use // and why .h files should use /* */

thanks,

greg k-h