[LTP] [RFC] Reduce LICENCE/COPYING files

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Fri Jun 4 11:48:53 CEST 2021


Hi Li,

> > > > I suppose it's safe to keep only single licence in testcases/open_posix_testsuite/,
> > > > but could we keep only COPYING in the root directory and delete the rest?
> > > > Or keep COPYING and testcases/open_posix_testsuite/COPYING only?

> > > Do we even need these files? Isn't SPDX identifier enough these days?
> > It be nice we don't need it, but not sure. Looking into kernel tree, there is
> > LICENSES folder [1] and they describe how they use SPDX [2]:

> My perspective is to stay on the safe side, keep one in the LTP root
> dir and one in the subproject(e.g. open_posix).
This makes sense. I'll send RFC patch with your ack.

> The general files go with the SPDX identifier header.
+1

Kind regards,
Petr


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