[Starlingx-discuss] Using short form SPDX style license headers

[Saul Wold]

Has the project got any firm direction on using the full license text vs 
the SPDX "short identifiers" [0] for license headers?

I am not proposing we change things wholesale, I am just looking to 
establish a direction moving forward.  Any new files written would 
include the short identifier [1]. Any modified files could switch to 
SPDX identifiers when edited.  At some point we could do a mass 
replacement, but not recommending that now.

Many OpenSource projects are starting to use the one-line SPDX license 
identifier, including the Linux kernel project [2].

Example instead of including about 15 lines of Apache 2.0 License, the 
single line would be used:

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0


Thoughts, flames?

Sau!



[0] https://spdx.org
[1] https://spdx.org/licenses
[2] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst