Re: [patch 8/9] scripts/spdxcheck: Exclude dot files

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:55 PM Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> None of these files
>
>      .clang-format, .cocciconfig, .get_maintainer.ignore, .gitattributes,
>      .gitignore, .mailmap
>
> have copyrightable content. They are configuration files which use a
> publicly documented format.

Should this files remove their SPDX-License-Identifier? If yes, we
should do that for `.clang-format`.

As another suggestion, we should check that the ignored files actually
do _not_ have the `SPDX-License-Identifier` (i.e. so the above case
would trigger a diagnostic).

Cheers,
Miguel