Re: [PATCH 13/24] USB: early: Remove redundant license text

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 10:39:30AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/06/2017 10:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Now that the SPDX tag is in all USB 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: Lu Baolu 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c | 4 
> >  drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h | 4 
> >  2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
> > index 6901a08a6866..8a700b45b9a9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
> > @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
> >   * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
> >   *
> >   * Author: Lu Baolu 
> > - *
> > - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> > - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> >   */
> >  
> >  #define pr_fmt(fmt)KBUILD_MODNAME ":%s: " fmt, __func__
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h
> > index 24118d3d6e07..237db77ab991 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h
> > @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
> >   * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
> >   *
> >   * Author: Lu Baolu 
> > - *
> > - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> > - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> >   */
> >  
> >  #ifndef __LINUX_XHCI_DBC_H
> 
> Acked-by: Lu Baolu 

Thanks for the ack.

greg k-h
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Re: [PATCH 13/24] USB: early: Remove redundant license text

[Lu Baolu]

Hi,

On 11/06/2017 10:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Now that the SPDX tag is in all USB 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: Lu Baolu 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
> ---
>  drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c | 4 
>  drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h | 4 
>  2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
> index 6901a08a6866..8a700b45b9a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
> @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
>   * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
>   *
>   * Author: Lu Baolu 
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>   */
>  
>  #define pr_fmt(fmt)  KBUILD_MODNAME ":%s: " fmt, __func__
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h
> index 24118d3d6e07..237db77ab991 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h
> +++ b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h
> @@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
>   * Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
>   *
>   * Author: Lu Baolu 
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>   */
>  
>  #ifndef __LINUX_XHCI_DBC_H

Acked-by: Lu Baolu 

Best regards,
Lu Baolu


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