linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] arch/s390/ license text cleanup

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Date:   Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:38:08 +0100
From:   Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] arch/s390/ license text cleanup

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:00:31 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Here are 12 patches against linux-next of today that add SPDX
> identifiers to the remaining files in arch/s390 that do not currently
> have them, and then it cleans up the various different ways that the
> license text boilerplate was written for the GPLv2 in a few files.  This
> cleanup was done in the quest to remove the 700+ different ways the
> kernel describes GPLv2.
> 
> No copyright headers or any other non-license-description text was
> removed in these patches.
> 
> FWIW, this license cleanup action has been "blessed" by IBM lawyers, but
> feel free to check internally if you are curious.

Ok, Christian picked up patches #2 and #8. I have added the remaining 10
patches to the fixes branch of s390/linux and created an additional patch
to have arch/s390/kernel/sthyi.c marked as GPL-2.0.

Thanks Greg!

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.