Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] GPL License Boilerplate: Switch from HTTP to HTTPS

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 06:21:08PM -0500, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 02:58:38PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> > > Obtaining code over an insecure transport is a terrible idea for
> > > blatently obvious reasons.  Even for non-executable data, insecure
> > > transports are considered deprecated.
> > > 
> > > This patch changes GPL boilerplate.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > For the licensing boilerplate, I think it would be better to switch to
> > SPDX instead.
> > 
> > That said, given that you have already done the work to covert the GPL
> > boilerplate everywhere, I think this is OK. But if you have time and
> > energy I would love to see a patch switching to SPDX in as many places
> > as possible.
> 
> The only part of this patch I actually wrote is the commit message.  The
> rest was generatedy by:
> 
>     git ls-files -z |
>     xargs -0 -- sed -Ei -- 's@(http)(://www\.gnu\.org)@\1s\2@g'
> 
> followed by the usual git stuff.  Do you know of a similar automated
> tool for SPDX conversion?

I did this with a little script in the past:
    
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20221103115204.49610-7-anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx/

It could be adapted for the different licenses.

Cheers,

-- 
Anthony PERARD