linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/3] time: Remove license boilerplates and sloppy references

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Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:37:23 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        David Riley <davidriley@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/3] time: Remove license boilerplates and sloppy
 references

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:04:44AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Now that the SPDX tag is in all time(r) core 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 or other entities which is never
> needed.
>     
> No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Reviewed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>