[PATCH] LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause: Prefer no license text

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Wed Feb 19 07:13:28 UTC 2020


Update #3053.
---
 LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause b/LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause
index 60a74e9adf..b58cfd6aa4 100644
--- a/LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause
+++ b/LICENSE.BSD-2-Clause
@@ -21,7 +21,16 @@ If more than one copyright holder exists for a file, then sort the copyright
 lines by the first year (earlier years are below later years) followed by the
 copyright holder in alphabetical order (A is above B).
 
-You must not alter anything else in the license comment.
+It is preferred to not include the full BSD-2-Clause license text in each file.
+Use the SPDX License Identifier to specify the license.
+
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) <FIRST YEAR>, <LAST YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>
+ /
+
+For reference, a license header with the full license text is:
 
 /*
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
-- 
2.16.4



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