netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: meth: remove spurious copyright text

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Message-Id: <20200423.155956.49944775917212535.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:59:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     corbet@....net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rubini@....org, jan.kiszka@...mens.com,
        ralf@...ux-mips.org, kstewart@...uxfoundation.org,
        oliver.fendt@...mens.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: meth: remove spurious copyright text

From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:39:03 -0600

> Evidently, at some point in the pre-githistorious past,
> drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h somehow contained some code from the
> "snull" driver from the Linux Device Drivers book.  A comment crediting
> that source, asserting copyright ownership by the LDD authors, and imposing
> the LDD2 license terms was duly added to the file.
> 
> Any code that may have been derived from snull is long gone, and the
> distribution terms are not GPL-compatible.  Since the copyright claim is
> not based in fact (if it ever was), simply remove it and the distribution
> terms as well.
> 
> Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
> Acked-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...dd.com>
> CC: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> CC: Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
> CC: "Fendt, Oliver" <oliver.fendt@...mens.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>

Applied, thank you.