Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] [dt-bindings] [media] Add document file and driver for Sony CXD2880 DVB-T2/T tuner + demodulator

[Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>]

Dear Mauro,

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:

> SPDX is a new requirement that started late on Kernel 4.14 development
> cycle (and whose initial changes were merged directly at Linus tree).
> Not all existing files have it yet, as identifying the right license
> on existing files is a complex task, but if you do a:
>
>         $ git grep SPDX $(find . -name Makefile) $(find . -name Kconfig)
>
> You'll see that lot of such files have it already.

FWIW, short of having SPDX tags, identifying the right license on
existing files is not a super complex task: if boils down to running
many diffs.

Take the ~60K files in kernel, and about 6K license and notices
reference texts. Then compute a pairwise diff of each of the 60K file
against the 6K reference texts. Repeat the pairwise diff a few more
times, say 10 times, as multiple licenses may appear in any given
kernel file. And keep the diffs that have the fewest
difference/highest similarity with the reference texts as the detected
license. Done!

The only complex thing is that if you have a fast diff that runs at
0.1 millisec end-to-end per diff, you still have 3.6B diffs to do and
this would take about 250 days on one thread. Even with a beefy 250
core CPU, that would still be a day (and quite few kilo watts) . So
the whole trick is to avoid doing a diffs if not really needed. This
is what I do in my scancode-toolkit (that I used/use to help Greg and
Thomas with kernel license scans). Net effect is that on a laptop on 8
threads it takes ~20 minutes to scan a whole kernel using this
diff-based approach and obtain a fairly accurate license detection.
-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne