Re: [patch repost 00/25] The first batch of various GPLv2 boilerplates and references

Thomas Gleixner
2022-06-07T10:34:22Z

On Mon, Jun 06 2022 at 22:10, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Folks!
>
> Sorry for the noise. I'm resending this because I fatfingered the
> initial submission and my patch mail scripts did not notice and the
> mail headers are broken which breaks threading.
>
> The fun starts again. Here comes the first batch of GPLv2 boilerplates and
> references. As 3 years ago, I ran scancode over v5.19-rc1 and categorized
> the license boilerplates and references.
>
> Each patch contains exactly one normalized match pattern. Normalization
> takes formatting, punctuation etc. out of the picture to reduce the amount
> of different patterns to look at.
>
> This batch contains the first 25 match patterns which scancode
> detected as clear GPLv2 only boilerplates or references. It touches a
> total of 912 files and removes about 7000 lines of gunk.
>
> The series is also available from git:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-spdx.git 2022-batch1

I just noticed that patches 3, 4 and 10 did not get delivered. It seems
they trigger the size limit of the list.

I'll split them up into smaller junks.

Thanks,

tglx