linux-kernel - [PATCH] LICENSES: Linux-syscall-note: replace stale "below" reference

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Message-ID: <20241216132035.3409853-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:20:35 +0100
From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: [PATCH] LICENSES: Linux-syscall-note: replace stale "below" reference

Ever since this was copied out of the original COPYING file [1], and the
COPYING file itself subsequently replaced by references to files under
LICENSES/ [2], the word "below" lost its meaning. Refresh the wording
so it is independent of whether the GPL text is reproduced next
to (above, below, alongside) the syscall note or not.

[1] e00a844acab3 ("LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception")
[2] bf02d491237e ("COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files")

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
---

Linus, I can certainly understand if you don't want to change this
text that has been there forever, so feel free to just ignore. Also,
I'm not sure I can even "sign off" on changes to this text, so also
feel free to remove that tag and replace by a reported-by or
suggested-by if you do decide to take it.

 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note b/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
index 9abdad71fafd..df3ced6ec8ee 100644
--- a/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
+++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ License-Text:
    NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
  services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
  of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
- Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
+ Also note that the GPL text itself is copyrighted by the Free Software
  Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
  kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.

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