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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] Address issues with SPDX requirements and PEP-263
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Am 07.09.19 um 15:34 schrieb Jonathan Corbet:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:57:47 -0300
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> The description at Documentation/process/license-rules.rst is very strict
>> with regards to the position where the SPDX tags should be.
>>
>> In the past several developers and maintainers interpreted it on a
>> more permissive way, placing the SPDX header between lines 1 to 15,
>> with are the ones which the scripts/spdxcheck.py script verifies.
>>
>> However, recently, devs are becoming more strict about such
>> requirement and want it to strictly follow the rule, with states that
>> the SPDX rule should be at the first line ever on most files, and
>> at the second line for scripts.
>>
>> Well, for Python script, such requirement causes violation to PEP-263,
>> making regressions on scripts that contain encoding lines, as PEP-263
>> also states about the same.
>>
>> This series addresses it.
>
> So I really don't want to be overly difficult here, but I would like to
> approach this from yet another angle...
>
>> Patches 1 to 3 fix some Python scripts that violates PEP-263;
>
> I just checked all of those scripts, and they are all just plain ASCII.
> So it really doesn't matter whether the environment defaults to UTF-8 or
> ASCII here. So, in other words, we really shouldn't need to define the
> encoding at all.
>

Thats what I mean [1] .. lets patch the description in the license-rules.rst::

- first line for the OS (shebang)
- second line for environment (python-encoding, editor-mode, ...)
- third and more lines for application (SPDX use) ..

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-doc@vger.kernel.org/msg33240.html

-- Markus --

> This suggests to me that we're adding a bunch of complications that we
> don't necessarily need. What am I missing here?
>
> Educate me properly and I'll not try to stand in the way of all this...
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>

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