linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/9] ceph: quota: Cleanup license mess

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Message-ID: <CAOi1vP_zHqKvoqZ3Bupip3=Hcoy6fY4jEF-kf46-A0g4ZTNpcw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:48:42 +0100
From:   Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>,
        Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>,
        Ceph Development <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] ceph: quota: Cleanup license mess

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:15 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> Precise and non-ambiguous license information is important. The recently
> added aegis header file has a SPDX license identifier, which is nice, but

Looks like cut-and-paste from crypto/aegis.h patch?

I'm changing this to say "recently added quota.c file".

> at the same time it has a contradictionary license boiler plate text.
>
>   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>
> versus
>
>   * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>   * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
>   * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> Oh well.
>
> As the other ceph related files are licensed under the GPL v2 only, it's
> assumed that the SPDX id is correct and the boiler plate was randomly
> copied into that patch.
>
> Remove the boiler plate as it is wrong and even if correct it is redundant.
>
> Fixes: fb18a57568c2 ("ceph: quota: add initial infrastructure to support cephfs quotas")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>
> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>
> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
> Cc: ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>
> P.S.: This patch is part of a larger cleanup, but independent of other
>       patches and is intended to be picked up by the maintainer directly.
>
> ---
>  fs/ceph/quota.c |   13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/fs/ceph/quota.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/quota.c
> @@ -3,19 +3,6 @@
>   * quota.c - CephFS quota
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 2017-2018 SUSE
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
> - * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
> - *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> - * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   */
>
>  #include <linux/statfs.h>

Applied.

Thanks,

                Ilya