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

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Nov 11 13:14:30 UTC 2017


On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:27:40AM +0530, Vaibhav Agarwal wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 7:28 PM, 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: Vaibhav Agarwal <vaibhav.sr at gmail.com>

Thanks for the acks.

greg k-h


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