Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX-License-Identifier to source files

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
[trini: Fixup common/cmd_io.c]
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>

76 files changed, 84 insertions, 1262 deletions

diff --git a/tools/Makefile b/tools/Makefile
index 46159b23d6..33fad6badb 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile
+++ b/tools/Makefile
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2000-2006
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 TOOLSUBDIRS = kernel-doc
diff --git a/tools/aisimage.c b/tools/aisimage.c
index 659df8c0ee..cd89145867 100644
--- a/tools/aisimage.c
+++ b/tools/aisimage.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2011
  * Stefano Babic, DENX Software Engineering, sbabic@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 /* Required to obtain the getline prototype from stdio.h */
diff --git a/tools/aisimage.h b/tools/aisimage.h
index a6372b87e8..1f092dbc7e 100644
--- a/tools/aisimage.h
+++ b/tools/aisimage.h
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2011
  * Stefano Babic, DENX Software Engineering, sbabic@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 #ifndef _AISIMAGE_H_
diff --git a/tools/bin2header.c b/tools/bin2header.c
index 390100e247..27a5b6aab6 100644
--- a/tools/bin2header.c
+++ b/tools/bin2header.c
@@ -3,23 +3,7 @@
  *
  * (C) Copyright 2008 by Harald Welte <laforge@openmoko.org>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README
index 72210070ab..734ada65a8 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/README
+++ b/tools/buildman/README
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 What is this?
diff --git a/tools/buildman/board.py b/tools/buildman/board.py
index 9f50abadc1..cc7b5d011f 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/board.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/board.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 class Board:
diff --git a/tools/buildman/bsettings.py b/tools/buildman/bsettings.py
index 7e66c63b4b..c80113056c 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/bsettings.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/bsettings.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import ConfigParser
diff --git a/tools/buildman/builder.py b/tools/buildman/builder.py
index e426442acd..29da67a54e 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/builder.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/builder.py
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Bloat-o-meter code used here Copyright 2004 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import collections
diff --git a/tools/buildman/buildman.py b/tools/buildman/buildman.py
index 7b05d0fb6e..6fba2f292a 100755
--- a/tools/buildman/buildman.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/buildman.py
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 """See README for more information"""
diff --git a/tools/buildman/control.py b/tools/buildman/control.py
index 4319ce77d3..8e6a08f78e 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/control.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/control.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import multiprocessing
diff --git a/tools/buildman/test.py b/tools/buildman/test.py
index 9330fa56eb..bcdedfbf3f 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/test.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/test.py
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import os
diff --git a/tools/buildman/toolchain.py b/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
index e0a697037e..dfa1d00ce2 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
+++ b/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import glob
diff --git a/tools/default_image.c b/tools/default_image.c
index e9d072975b..fd8b9f5f15 100644
--- a/tools/default_image.c
+++ b/tools/default_image.c
@@ -11,20 +11,7 @@
  *
  * All rights reserved.
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include "mkimage.h"
diff --git a/tools/env/Makefile b/tools/env/Makefile
index 0e798e0940..14d131b7b8 100644
--- a/tools/env/Makefile
+++ b/tools/env/Makefile
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2002-2006
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/config.mk
diff --git a/tools/env/fw_env.c b/tools/env/fw_env.c
index 01fc1d4e57..44607b164a 100644
--- a/tools/env/fw_env.c
+++ b/tools/env/fw_env.c
@@ -5,23 +5,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2008
  * Guennadi Liakhovetski, DENX Software Engineering, lg@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <errno.h>
diff --git a/tools/env/fw_env.h b/tools/env/fw_env.h
index a1a6807445..6208293790 100644
--- a/tools/env/fw_env.h
+++ b/tools/env/fw_env.h
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2002-2008
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 /* Pull in the current config to define the default environment */
diff --git a/tools/env/fw_env_main.c b/tools/env/fw_env_main.c
index 40ea3f62a2..5f42df3889 100644
--- a/tools/env/fw_env_main.c
+++ b/tools/env/fw_env_main.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000-2008
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/tools/envcrc.c b/tools/envcrc.c
index 08d2a8f550..a9d9b48c76 100644
--- a/tools/envcrc.c
+++ b/tools/envcrc.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2001
  * Paolo Scaffardi, AIRVENT SAM s.p.a - RIMINI(ITALY), arsenio@tin.it
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <errno.h>
diff --git a/tools/fdt_host.h b/tools/fdt_host.h
index b08bf866ee..c2b23c6217 100644
--- a/tools/fdt_host.h
+++ b/tools/fdt_host.h
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * (C) Copyright 2008 Semihalf
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #ifndef __FDT_HOST_H__
diff --git a/tools/fit_image.c b/tools/fit_image.c
index 281c2bda13..47beaaff2a 100644
--- a/tools/fit_image.c
+++ b/tools/fit_image.c
@@ -11,20 +11,7 @@
  *
  * All rights reserved.
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include "mkimage.h"
diff --git a/tools/gdb/Makefile b/tools/gdb/Makefile
index 90037c7883..dee91fccc0 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/Makefile
+++ b/tools/gdb/Makefile
@@ -5,23 +5,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2000
 # Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/config.mk
diff --git a/tools/gdb/error.c b/tools/gdb/error.c
index 276a00a677..4c32ce55f4 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/error.c
+++ b/tools/gdb/error.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/tools/gdb/error.h b/tools/gdb/error.h
index 0698213306..fdadaacc6c 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/error.h
+++ b/tools/gdb/error.h
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdarg.h>
diff --git a/tools/gdb/gdbcont.c b/tools/gdb/gdbcont.c
index 300545d8e1..761bdb0aae 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/gdbcont.c
+++ b/tools/gdb/gdbcont.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/tools/gdb/gdbsend.c b/tools/gdb/gdbsend.c
index 8cd8347159..bb28c7214d 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/gdbsend.c
+++ b/tools/gdb/gdbsend.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/tools/gdb/remote.c b/tools/gdb/remote.c
index c76a7ba19b..f3681043f9 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/remote.c
+++ b/tools/gdb/remote.c
@@ -107,20 +107,8 @@ remote_continue(void)
 
    This file is part of GDB.
 
-   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-   (at your option) any later version.
-
-   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-   GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-   Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
 /* *INDENT-OFF* */
 /* Remote communication protocol.
 
diff --git a/tools/gdb/remote.h b/tools/gdb/remote.h
index f14dacb07a..df6b06988b 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/remote.h
+++ b/tools/gdb/remote.h
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 extern int remote_desc, remote_timeout;
diff --git a/tools/gdb/serial.c b/tools/gdb/serial.c
index 2f2e5291d9..709f8cef78 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/serial.c
+++ b/tools/gdb/serial.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <unistd.h>
diff --git a/tools/gdb/serial.h b/tools/gdb/serial.h
index 3ed509ee78..dc9d6b7e5d 100644
--- a/tools/gdb/serial.h
+++ b/tools/gdb/serial.h
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <termios.h>
diff --git a/tools/gen_eth_addr.c b/tools/gen_eth_addr.c
index 429b20d335..bf9d935efd 100644
--- a/tools/gen_eth_addr.c
+++ b/tools/gen_eth_addr.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2001
  * Murray Jensen <Murray.Jensen@cmst.csiro.au>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/tools/getline.c b/tools/getline.c
index 3ba52a3365..f7dbcc9bfe 100644
--- a/tools/getline.c
+++ b/tools/getline.c
@@ -1,20 +1,9 @@
 /* getline.c -- Replacement for GNU C library function getline
-
-Copyright (C) 1993, 1996, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1993, 1996, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
 
 /* Written by Jan Brittenson, bson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.  */
 
diff --git a/tools/image-host.c b/tools/image-host.c
index 932384beab..0d5c88ca73 100644
--- a/tools/image-host.c
+++ b/tools/image-host.c
@@ -6,23 +6,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000-2006
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include "mkimage.h"
diff --git a/tools/imls/Makefile b/tools/imls/Makefile
index 0caa397b20..1be1edb16a 100644
--- a/tools/imls/Makefile
+++ b/tools/imls/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
 #
 # (C) Copyright 2009 Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
 #
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/config.mk
diff --git a/tools/imls/README b/tools/imls/README
index 97d7e3216f..9adf92305d 100644
--- a/tools/imls/README
+++ b/tools/imls/README
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 #
 # (C) Copyright 2009 Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# The files in this directory are free software; you can redistribute
-# them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public
-# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-# version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# These files are distributed in the hope that they will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 IMLS
diff --git a/tools/imls/imls.c b/tools/imls/imls.c
index a982a1378a..95043b450b 100644
--- a/tools/imls/imls.c
+++ b/tools/imls/imls.c
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * (C) Copyright 2009 Marco Stornelli
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <errno.h>
diff --git a/tools/imximage.c b/tools/imximage.c
index 5e8e4701d3..c8a9ad578b 100644
--- a/tools/imximage.c
+++ b/tools/imximage.c
@@ -6,23 +6,7 @@
  * Marvell Semiconductor <www.marvell.com>
  * Written-by: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 /* Required to obtain the getline prototype from stdio.h */
diff --git a/tools/imximage.h b/tools/imximage.h
index 5c929e4987..214187bb8c 100644
--- a/tools/imximage.h
+++ b/tools/imximage.h
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2009
  * Stefano Babic, DENX Software Engineering, sbabic@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 #ifndef _IMXIMAGE_H_
diff --git a/tools/kernel-doc/Makefile b/tools/kernel-doc/Makefile
index 28a3f61295..eb56e2e753 100644
--- a/tools/kernel-doc/Makefile
+++ b/tools/kernel-doc/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2012 Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
 #
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/config.mk
diff --git a/tools/kwbimage.c b/tools/kwbimage.c
index f327b079b2..d08e49892d 100644
--- a/tools/kwbimage.c
+++ b/tools/kwbimage.c
@@ -3,23 +3,7 @@
  * Marvell Semiconductor <www.marvell.com>
  * Written-by: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 /* Required to obtain the getline prototype from stdio.h */
diff --git a/tools/kwbimage.h b/tools/kwbimage.h
index 3d3d5e9130..8e4a4e2810 100644
--- a/tools/kwbimage.h
+++ b/tools/kwbimage.h
@@ -3,23 +3,7 @@
  * Marvell Semiconductor <www.marvell.com>
  * Written-by: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #ifndef _KWBIMAGE_H_
diff --git a/tools/mingw_support.c b/tools/mingw_support.c
index 18b69bb277..038b8cdb27 100644
--- a/tools/mingw_support.c
+++ b/tools/mingw_support.c
@@ -84,19 +84,8 @@ int munmap(void *addr, size_t len)
    Copyright (C) 1991,1996-1999,2001,2004,2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 
-   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-   any later version.
-
-   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-   GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
-   with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
+  * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
+ */
 
 /* Parse S into tokens separated by characters in DELIM.
    If S is NULL, the saved pointer in SAVE_PTR is used as
diff --git a/tools/mkenvimage.c b/tools/mkenvimage.c
index 55212687e1..f685ff2e30 100644
--- a/tools/mkenvimage.c
+++ b/tools/mkenvimage.c
@@ -6,23 +6,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2001
  * Paolo Scaffardi, AIRVENT SAM s.p.a - RIMINI(ITALY), arsenio@tin.it
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 /* We want the GNU version of basename() */
diff --git a/tools/mkexynosspl.c b/tools/mkexynosspl.c
index 6a8dd93739..ef685b77ab 100644
--- a/tools/mkexynosspl.c
+++ b/tools/mkexynosspl.c
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Samsung Electronics
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/tools/mkimage.c b/tools/mkimage.c
index d312844e9c..b700b9e8c0 100644
--- a/tools/mkimage.c
+++ b/tools/mkimage.c
@@ -5,20 +5,7 @@
  * DENX Software Engineering
  * Wolfgang Denk, wd@denx.de
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include "mkimage.h"
diff --git a/tools/mkimage.h b/tools/mkimage.h
index 1d9984e1a3..950e19067f 100644
--- a/tools/mkimage.h
+++ b/tools/mkimage.h
@@ -3,20 +3,7 @@
  * DENX Software Engineering
  * Wolfgang Denk, wd@denx.de
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #ifndef _MKIIMAGE_H_
diff --git a/tools/mpc86x_clk.c b/tools/mpc86x_clk.c
index 8dfbd4e3d0..9f662f73eb 100644
--- a/tools/mpc86x_clk.c
+++ b/tools/mpc86x_clk.c
@@ -9,23 +9,7 @@
  *
  * Generaly you select the first row of the produced table.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 
diff --git a/tools/mxsboot.c b/tools/mxsboot.c
index d92c39fec6..3d9cc10f0f 100644
--- a/tools/mxsboot.c
+++ b/tools/mxsboot.c
@@ -4,23 +4,7 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2011 Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
  * on behalf of DENX Software Engineering GmbH
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <fcntl.h>
diff --git a/tools/omap/clocks_get_m_n.c b/tools/omap/clocks_get_m_n.c
index c27577b70c..57e25753a2 100644
--- a/tools/omap/clocks_get_m_n.c
+++ b/tools/omap/clocks_get_m_n.c
@@ -7,23 +7,7 @@
  *
  * Aneesh V <aneesh@ti.com>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/tools/omapimage.c b/tools/omapimage.c
index d242cca3a8..d4d77d8858 100644
--- a/tools/omapimage.c
+++ b/tools/omapimage.c
@@ -11,23 +11,7 @@
  * Marvell Semiconductor <www.marvell.com>
  * Written-by: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 /* Required to obtain the getline prototype from stdio.h */
diff --git a/tools/omapimage.h b/tools/omapimage.h
index 719db00554..058013498b 100644
--- a/tools/omapimage.h
+++ b/tools/omapimage.h
@@ -4,23 +4,7 @@
  * Author John Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org>
  * Based on TI's signGP.c
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 #ifndef _OMAPIMAGE_H_
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index c954989db6..e6d3070621 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 What is this?
diff --git a/tools/patman/checkpatch.py b/tools/patman/checkpatch.py
index 83aaf710ba..0d4e935244 100644
--- a/tools/patman/checkpatch.py
+++ b/tools/patman/checkpatch.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import collections
diff --git a/tools/patman/command.py b/tools/patman/command.py
index e6af6ed7de..449d3d0e03 100644
--- a/tools/patman/command.py
+++ b/tools/patman/command.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import os
diff --git a/tools/patman/commit.py b/tools/patman/commit.py
index 468b50cc67..900cfb3a5a 100644
--- a/tools/patman/commit.py
+++ b/tools/patman/commit.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import re
diff --git a/tools/patman/get_maintainer.py b/tools/patman/get_maintainer.py
index cb11373a0f..00b49394bc 100644
--- a/tools/patman/get_maintainer.py
+++ b/tools/patman/get_maintainer.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import command
diff --git a/tools/patman/gitutil.py b/tools/patman/gitutil.py
index b7f6739552..5dcbaa3bd7 100644
--- a/tools/patman/gitutil.py
+++ b/tools/patman/gitutil.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import command
diff --git a/tools/patman/patchstream.py b/tools/patman/patchstream.py
index b4337ccbdf..c2045230af 100644
--- a/tools/patman/patchstream.py
+++ b/tools/patman/patchstream.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import os
diff --git a/tools/patman/patman.py b/tools/patman/patman.py
index 7a317c5c25..c60aa5a1c4 100755
--- a/tools/patman/patman.py
+++ b/tools/patman/patman.py
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 """See README for more information"""
diff --git a/tools/patman/project.py b/tools/patman/project.py
index 4f7b2b3ef9..e05ff1163f 100644
--- a/tools/patman/project.py
+++ b/tools/patman/project.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import os.path
diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py
index 85ed31688a..88c0d877d4 100644
--- a/tools/patman/series.py
+++ b/tools/patman/series.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import itertools
diff --git a/tools/patman/settings.py b/tools/patman/settings.py
index 084d1b80e5..122e8fd981 100644
--- a/tools/patman/settings.py
+++ b/tools/patman/settings.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import ConfigParser
diff --git a/tools/patman/terminal.py b/tools/patman/terminal.py
index 337a2a43c0..597d526861 100644
--- a/tools/patman/terminal.py
+++ b/tools/patman/terminal.py
@@ -1,22 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 """Terminal utilities
diff --git a/tools/patman/test.py b/tools/patman/test.py
index 8cd26471c3..8fcfe530dc 100644
--- a/tools/patman/test.py
+++ b/tools/patman/test.py
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 import os
@@ -141,27 +125,11 @@ new file mode 100644
 index 0000000..2234c87
 --- /dev/null
 +++ b/common/bootstage.c
-@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
 +/*
 + * Copyright (c) 2011, Google Inc. All rights reserved.
 + *
-+ * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-+ * project.
-+ *
-+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-+ *
-+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
-+ *
-+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-+ * MA 02111-1307 USA
++ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 + */
 +
 +
diff --git a/tools/pblimage.c b/tools/pblimage.c
index 5f39dc5bbf..4542a9c10f 100644
--- a/tools/pblimage.c
+++ b/tools/pblimage.c
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 
diff --git a/tools/pblimage.h b/tools/pblimage.h
index 514a477ca4..a0f1fc53ab 100644
--- a/tools/pblimage.h
+++ b/tools/pblimage.h
@@ -1,23 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2012 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 #ifndef PBLIMAGE_H
diff --git a/tools/proftool.c b/tools/proftool.c
index aa05e77ece..348295198c 100644
--- a/tools/proftool.c
+++ b/tools/proftool.c
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2013 Google, Inc
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 /* Decode and dump U-Boot profiling information */
diff --git a/tools/scripts/README b/tools/scripts/README
index 046c1d411c..dbc4425afd 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/README
+++ b/tools/scripts/README
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2001
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# The files in this directory are free software; you can redistribute
-# them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public
-# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-# version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# These files are distributed in the hope that they will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 This directory contains scripts that help to perform certain actions
diff --git a/tools/ublimage.c b/tools/ublimage.c
index d6b401738a..6495db6d6a 100644
--- a/tools/ublimage.c
+++ b/tools/ublimage.c
@@ -10,23 +10,7 @@
  * Marvell Semiconductor <www.marvell.com>
  * Written-by: Prafulla Wadaskar <prafulla@marvell.com>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 /* Required to obtain the getline prototype from stdio.h */
diff --git a/tools/ublimage.h b/tools/ublimage.h
index e440625382..b7318e9535 100644
--- a/tools/ublimage.h
+++ b/tools/ublimage.h
@@ -6,23 +6,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2009
  * Stefano Babic, DENX Software Engineering, sbabic@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 #ifndef _UBLIMAGE_H_
diff --git a/tools/ubsha1.c b/tools/ubsha1.c
index 625e13f90c..c003f9ad19 100644
--- a/tools/ubsha1.c
+++ b/tools/ubsha1.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2007
  * Heiko Schocher, DENX Software Engineering, <hs@denx.de>
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include "os_support.h"
diff --git a/tools/updater/Makefile b/tools/updater/Makefile
index e9684cb409..19dd5eb6f4 100644
--- a/tools/updater/Makefile
+++ b/tools/updater/Makefile
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
 # (C) Copyright 2000-2006
 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
 #
-# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
-# project.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
-# the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
-# MA 02111-1307 USA
+# SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
 #
 
 LOAD_ADDR = 0x40000
diff --git a/tools/updater/cmd_flash.c b/tools/updater/cmd_flash.c
index 957a7c4f68..3a604d00d5 100644
--- a/tools/updater/cmd_flash.c
+++ b/tools/updater/cmd_flash.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/tools/updater/ctype.c b/tools/updater/ctype.c
index 6ed0468a21..96fa9ed114 100644
--- a/tools/updater/ctype.c
+++ b/tools/updater/ctype.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 /*
diff --git a/tools/updater/flash.c b/tools/updater/flash.c
index 5be5f1b099..5388872074 100644
--- a/tools/updater/flash.c
+++ b/tools/updater/flash.c
@@ -2,23 +2,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2000-2006
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 
 #include <common.h>
diff --git a/tools/updater/flash_hw.c b/tools/updater/flash_hw.c
index b5058b3abe..254493345d 100644
--- a/tools/updater/flash_hw.c
+++ b/tools/updater/flash_hw.c
@@ -5,23 +5,7 @@
  * (C) Copyright 2002
  * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
  *
- * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
- * project.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
- * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
- * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.	 See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+ 
  */
 
 #include <common.h>
diff --git a/tools/updater/ppcstring.S b/tools/updater/ppcstring.S
index 97023a0555..8152ac9b0f 100644
--- a/tools/updater/ppcstring.S
+++ b/tools/updater/ppcstring.S
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1996 Paul Mackerras.
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
  */
 #include <ppc_asm.tmpl>
 #include <asm/errno.h>