[PATCH] arm: DT: imx6-sr-som: Replace license text comment with SPDX identifier

Russell King (Oracle) linux at armlinux.org.uk
Thu Jul 3 01:03:59 PDT 2025


On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 11:56:20PM +0200, Csókás Bence wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2025. 07. 02. 23:52, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 11:41:54PM +0200, Bence Csókás wrote:
> > > Replace verbatim license text with a `SPDX-License-Identifier`.
> > > 
> > > The comment heades mis-attributes this license to be "X11", but the
> > > license text does not include the last line "Except as contained in this
> > > notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or
> > > otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software
> > > without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.". Therefore,
> > > this license is actually equivalent to the SPDX "MIT" license (confirmed
> > > by text diffing).
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Bence Csókás <csokas.bence at prolan.hu>
> > 
> > As Florian has already mentioned, the preferred format for the summary
> > for arch/arm is "ARM: ... " and by extension for arch/arm/boot/dts,
> > it's "ARM: dts: ...", not "arm: DT: ..."
> 
> Ohh, I misread it, I thought it was just about `imx6: board:` ->
> `imx6-board:`... Ok, I will re-format it for v2.

Note that it applies to _all_ patches to arch/arm/boot/dts.

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