Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] linux-user: Move the SPDX license identifier to first line

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 08:15:40AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Tools consuming SPDX license identifiers benefit from having
> the SPDX tag in its own comment, not embedded with the license
> text. Move the tag to the first line.

Do you have an example of such a tool which has problems ?

AFAIK, guidance for adding SPDX tags merely says they should
be in a comment near the top of the file.

I wouldn't expect license scanners to care about the acutal
comment syntax. Proper tools would be designed to scan for
tags in *any* file format, so would be unlikely to be parsing
the C code comments at all. Rather scanners would be just
looking for the magic string "SPDX-License-Identifier" in
the file. Use of comments is merely to stop the C compiler
interpreting the tag.

It makes sense to have the SPDX tag as the first thing in
the file, but I don't see a compelling need to make it into
its own dedicated opened + closed comment, separately from
the license header comment.

Regards,
Daniel
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