linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Only flag FSF address, not gnu.org URL

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Message-ID: <1389116918.32137.16.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:48:38 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, josh@...htriplett.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Only flag FSF address, not gnu.org URL

On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 09:41 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL
> copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the references to
> the gnu.org/licenses URL which appears to be used in numerous drivers.  The
> idea is to still allow some reference to an external copy of the GPL in the
> event that files are copied out of the kernel tree without the COPYING file.

Looks OK to me.


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