[PATCH 02/11] staging: greybus: Remove redundant license text

David Lin dtwlin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 04:50:28 UTC 2017


On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Now that the SPDX tag is in all greybus files, that identifies the
> license in a specific and legally-defined manner.  So the extra GPL text
> wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all.
>
> This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in
> the kernel describe the GPL license text.  And there's unneeded stuff
> like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never
> needed.
>
> No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.
>
> Cc: Vaibhav Hiremath <hvaibhav.linux at gmail.com>
> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
> Cc: Alex Elder <elder at kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Vaibhav Agarwal <vaibhav.sr at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mark Greer <mgreer at animalcreek.com>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk at kernel.org>
> Cc: Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs at gmail.com>
> Cc: David Lin <dtwlin at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Bryan O'Donoghue" <pure.logic at nexus-software.ie>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: David Lin <dtwlin at gmail.com>


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