Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
sorting strings with common prefixes by noting
when all the strings land in just one bin.
Testing shows significant speedups (on the order of
30%) on strings with common prefixes and no slowdowns on any
of my test cases.
Submitted by: Markus Bjartveit Kruger <markusk@pvv.ntnu.no>
PR: 58860
Approved by: gordon (mentor)