[PATCH 9/9] staging: android: Remove redundant license text

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Nov 11 13:12:29 UTC 2017


On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:38:04AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 11/07/2017 12:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Now that the SPDX tag is in all android 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.
> > 
> 
> For the Ion portion,
> 
> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>

Thanks for the acks.

greg k-h


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