[Bug libc/28007] Add SPDX license identifiers

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28007

--- Comment #5 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to richard.purdie from comment #4)
> I would love to see this as it would significantly improve license
> identifier coverage of our code. Yocto Project uses the debug symbol/file
> information to work out which files contribute to a given binary and if
> those have SPDX     identifiers, we can give a reasonable indication of the
> license for the binary.
> 
> Is this something you'd accept incremental work on over time? Resolving the
> files which aren't the "standard" license would be particularly beneficial
> but wider coverage would be great too.

Absolutely, I think incremental progress would be the way to go.

> Have you given thought to what format would you want these changes in? In
> some projects (including our own Bitbake/OpenEmbedded-Core) we ended up
> replacing the license boilerplate with the SPDX-License-Identifier as it
> simplified and made things really clear. In some projects they just add the
> identifier and leave the existing license declaration. I'm not sure which
> glibc would prefer?

I would start by *adding* the identifer and leaving existing license
declarations. The addition of the identifiers is something we could more easily
approve.

The removal of license declarations can always happen as a second phase
cleanup, and would require more rigorous review.

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