Re: [V4, 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses

From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@linaro.org>,
	Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>,
	Carmen Bianca Bakker <carmenbianca@fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: [V4, 01/11] Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 00:05:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180105230520.GA5545@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7769bd49-146b-ea8c-3b2c-b5987653a665@gmail.com>

On 05/01/2018 at 14:48:04 -0800, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 01/05/18 05:05, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm definitively late to the party but...
> > 
> > On 17/11/2017 at 11:00:33 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> +2. Style:
> >> +
> >> +   The SPDX license identifier is added in form of a comment.  The comment
> >> +   style depends on the file type::
> >> +
> >> +      C source:   // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
> >> +      C header:   /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
> >> +      ASM:        /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
> >> +      scripts:    # SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
> >> +      .rst:	  .. SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
> >> +      .dts{i}:	  // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
> > 
> > dtc doesn't handle // comments. This works in the kernel tree because
> 
> dtc does handle // comments.
> 

Hum, correct. I got a report saying it didn't and when I only checked
the COMMENT line of dtc-lexer.l. For whatever reason, I missed the
following line handling c++ comments.

I'll get back to the original report, trying to find why it was not
compiling.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com