Re: [OSS-Tools] [PATCH dt-utils v2 5/9] treewide: add CC0-1.0 SPDX identifiers for trivial files

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

On 31.07.23 11:11, Roland Hieber wrote:
> Add license text from the SPDX website [1].
> 
>   [1]: https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>

I don't think it's necessary to add a SPDX-License-Identifier to empy files,
but I can live with it:

Acked-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>

> ---
> PATCH v2: new in series v2
> ---
>  LICENSES/CC0-1.0.txt | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/asm/unaligned.h  |   1 +
>  src/crc.h            |   1 +
>  src/driver.h         |   1 +
>  src/init.h           |   1 +
>  src/libfile.h        |   1 +
>  src/linux/err.h      |   1 +
>  src/module.h         |   1 +
>  src/mtd/mtd-peb.h    |   1 +
>  src/net.h            |   1 +
>  10 files changed, 130 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/CC0-1.0.txt
> 
> diff --git a/LICENSES/CC0-1.0.txt b/LICENSES/CC0-1.0.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..0e259d42c996
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/LICENSES/CC0-1.0.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
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> diff --git a/src/asm/unaligned.h b/src/asm/unaligned.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/asm/unaligned.h
> +++ b/src/asm/unaligned.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/crc.h b/src/crc.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/crc.h
> +++ b/src/crc.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/driver.h b/src/driver.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/driver.h
> +++ b/src/driver.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/init.h b/src/init.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/init.h
> +++ b/src/init.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/libfile.h b/src/libfile.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/libfile.h
> +++ b/src/libfile.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/linux/err.h b/src/linux/err.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/linux/err.h
> +++ b/src/linux/err.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/module.h b/src/module.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/module.h
> +++ b/src/module.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/mtd/mtd-peb.h b/src/mtd/mtd-peb.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/mtd/mtd-peb.h
> +++ b/src/mtd/mtd-peb.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */
> diff --git a/src/net.h b/src/net.h
> index 40a8c178f10d..7cdc990824c5 100644
> --- a/src/net.h
> +++ b/src/net.h
> @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
>  /* empty */

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