linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] s390: drivers: Remove redundant license text

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Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:00:42 +0100
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] s390: drivers: Remove redundant license text

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:38:08 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Now that the SPDX tag is in all drivers/s390/ 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: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
> Cc: Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/char/zcore.c        |  1 -
>  drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c           | 14 --------------
>  drivers/s390/cio/css.c           |  2 --
>  drivers/s390/cio/device.c        |  2 --
>  drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c    |  2 --
>  drivers/s390/net/lcs.c           | 14 --------------
>  drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c       | 15 ---------------
>  drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c      | 14 --------------
>  drivers/s390/virtio/Makefile     |  4 ----
>  drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c |  4 ----
>  10 files changed, 72 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>