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Message-ID: <CAH2r5msvpEXYLMCXxJzya+ohfgTwgduC57QsA-p43FfaGdV+gg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:43:48 -0600
From: Steve French <smfrench@...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>,
Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/9] smb3: Cleanup license mess
merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:17 PM 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
> 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.
>
> Assuming that the SPDX identifier is correct and according to x86/hyper-v
> contributions from Microsoft GPL V2 only is the usual license.
>
> Remove the boiler plate as it is wrong and even if correct it is redundant.
>
> Fixes: eccb4422cf97 ("smb3: Add ftrace tracepoints for improved SMB3 debugging")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
> Cc: linux-cifs@...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/cifs/trace.c | 10 ----------
> fs/cifs/trace.h | 10 ----------
> 2 files changed, 20 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/fs/cifs/trace.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/trace.c
> @@ -3,16 +3,6 @@
> * Copyright (C) 2018, Microsoft Corporation.
> *
> * Author(s): Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>
> - *
> - * 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.
> */
> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> #include "trace.h"
> --- a/fs/cifs/trace.h
> +++ b/fs/cifs/trace.h
> @@ -3,16 +3,6 @@
> * Copyright (C) 2018, Microsoft Corporation.
> *
> * Author(s): Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>
> - *
> - * 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.
> */
> #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
> #define TRACE_SYSTEM cifs
>
>
--
Thanks,
Steve
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