remove license templates; add info about SPDX to main license file

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 9cecc1d466..1351f44ec1 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -672,3 +672,13 @@ may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
 the library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
 Public License instead of this License.  But first, please read
 <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Note:
+Individual files contain the following tag instead of the full license text.
+
+	SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX
+License Identifiers that are here available: http://spdx.org/licenses/