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From: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 16:35:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: [patch V2 7/7] scripts: Add SPDX checker script
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>,
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Thomas,
Sorry for the very late reply!

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> The SPDX-License-Identifiers are growing in the kernel and so grow
> expression failures and license IDs are used which have no corresponding
> license text file in the LICENSES directory.
>
> Add a script which gathers information from the LICENSES directory,
> i.e. the various tags in the licenses and exception files and then scans
> either input from stdin, which it treats as a single file or if started
> without arguments it scans the full kernel tree.
>
> It checks whether the license expression syntax is correct and also
> validates whether the license identifiers used in the expressions are
> available in the LICENSES files.

Looking good to me! And the use of ply is sleek.
-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne