From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Breathitt Gray Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: convert remaining drivers to use SPDX license identifier Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 08:58:03 +0900 Message-ID: <20190622235803.GA3286@icarus> References: <1561048126-27578-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1561048126-27578-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck , Jerry Hoemann , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Matthias Brugger , Wan ZongShun , Sylvain Lemieux , Andy Gross , David Brown , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:28:46AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > This gets rid of the unnecessary license boilerplate, and avoids > having to deal with individual patches one by one. > > No functional changes. > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck > --- > Note: Several drivers include a paragraph such as > > "Neither nor admit liability nor > provide warranty for any of this software. This material is > provided "AS-IS" and at no charge." > > Presumably this is covered by the GPL license. However, since I am not > an attorney, I am not sure, and I opted for leaving such paragraphs in > place. [...] > drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c | 9 --------- [...] > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c > index c176f59fea28..8ef4b0df3855 100644 > --- a/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c > @@ -2,15 +2,6 @@ > /* > * Watchdog timer driver for the WinSystems EBC-C384 > * Copyright (C) 2016 William Breathitt Gray > - * > - * 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. > - * > - * 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. > */ > #include > #include Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray