[PATCH 06/24] staging: vc04_services: bcm2835-audio: remove redundant license text

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Jan 11 18:21:09 UTC 2018


Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> Now that the SPDX tag is in all
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/ 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.


> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> index 4ad67e64e6b9..ec468d5719b1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> @@ -1,17 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -/*****************************************************************************
> - * Copyright 2011 Broadcom Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> - *
> - * Unless you and Broadcom execute a separate written software license
> - * agreement governing use of this software, this software is licensed to you
> - * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, available at
> - * http://www.broadcom.com/licenses/GPLv2.php (the "GPL").
> - *
> - * Notwithstanding the above, under no circumstances may you combine this
> - * software in any way with any other Broadcom software provided under a
> - * license other than the GPL, without Broadcom's express prior written
> - * consent.
> - *****************************************************************************/
> +/* Copyright 2011 Broadcom Corporation.  All rights reserved. */

The "Notwithstanding..." section feels like something unusual and not
represented by the SPDX identifier.  Not sure what to do about that.

The 2 camera patches are:

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
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