Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files | Date | Mon, 16 May 2022 20:43:52 +0200 |
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On Mon, May 16 2022 at 16:22, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:55 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: >> >> None of these files >> >> .clang-format, .cocciconfig, .get_maintainer.ignore, .gitattributes, >> .gitignore, .mailmap >> >> have copyrightable content. They are configuration files which use a >> publicly documented format. > > Should this files remove their SPDX-License-Identifier? If yes, we > should do that for `.clang-format`. > > As another suggestion, we should check that the ignored files actually > do _not_ have the `SPDX-License-Identifier` (i.e. so the above case > would trigger a diagnostic).
Good questions. I'm happy to drop this patch for now until this discussion has been settled.
Thanks,
tglx
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