From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hemant Agrawal Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mrvl: convert license headers to SPDX tags Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:03:51 +0530 Message-ID: References: <1520588391-18110-1-git-send-email-tdu@semihalf.com> <1213431c-6986-8203-deb8-4a4225468273@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mw@semihalf.com, dima@marvell.com, nsamsono@marvell.com, jck@semihalf.com, jianbo.liu@arm.com To: Ferruh Yigit , Tomasz Duszynski , dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from EUR01-HE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-he1eur01on0048.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.0.48]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54435F24 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2018 18:34:08 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1213431c-6986-8203-deb8-4a4225468273@intel.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Hi, On 3/9/2018 3:35 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 3/9/2018 9:39 AM, Tomasz Duszynski wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski >> --- >> drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile | 35 ++++------------------------------- >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c | 36 ++++-------------------------------- >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.h | 36 ++++-------------------------------- >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_qos.c | 36 ++++-------------------------------- >> drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_qos.h | 36 ++++-------------------------------- >> 5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile b/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile >> index f75e53c..41ae6ec 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile >> +++ b/drivers/net/mrvl/Makefile >> @@ -1,34 +1,7 @@ >> -# BSD LICENSE >> -# >> -# Copyright(c) 2017 Marvell International Ltd. >> -# Copyright(c) 2017 Semihalf. >> -# All rights reserved. > > <...> > >> +# Copyright(c) 2018 Marvell International Ltd. >> +# Copyright(c) 2018 Semihalf. >> +# All rights reserved. > > Hi Tomasz, > > Related to the Copyright year update (2017 -> 2018), I am definitely not right > person for legal issues, > > but as far as I know that year indicates the year that copyright starts, I > assume you don't want to start your copyright from beginning 2018 but you want > to extend it, for that case year part should be "start - extended", like: > # Copyright(c) 2017-2018 Marvell International Ltd. > > cc'ed Hemant who know more than me about licensing. Well, as a DPDK contribution it is upto Marvell/Semihalf to change it. However, Ferruh made a good suggestion here. if nothing important is added, ideally the copyright year should not change. So, don't change the copyright year or make it "Copyright(c) 2017-2018" . It is not good for Marvell/Semihalf to just relinquish the 2017 copyright for no good reason. Regards, Hemant > > Thanks, > ferruh >