Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: tango: Add standard legalese header

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:22:14AM +0100, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> Provide proper copyright notice and license information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com>
> ---
> I originally didn't provide this information because I thought
> MODULE_AUTHOR defined the copyright holder, and MODULE_LICENSE
> defined the license. (So I figured the header was redundant.)

It may be redundant, but (IANAL) I expect the macros are more
interesting to machines (which can do things like handle GPL vs. non-GPL
symbols, and print out nice 'modinfo') and maybe programmers (who are
often more like machines than lawyers) than to lawyers.

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c
> index 7ed35348993e..cc23db64f0ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2016 Sigma Designs
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> + * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +

Thanks. Applied to l2-mtd.git.

Brian

>  #include <linux/io.h>
>  #include <linux/of.h>
>  #include <linux/clk.h>
> -- 
> 2.9.0