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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 17:07:44 +0000
From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: WTF? Re: [PATCH] License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 08:39:40 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:20:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > NAK, for both the libxfs patch and the kernel one.  
> 
> What libxfs patch?  And what "kernel one" are you referring to here?
> 
> > I wrote the file and it has no copyright header because it conatians
> > trivial, non-copyrightable code.  
> 
> What file exactly?
> 
> And from what I know, there is nothing that is "non-copyrightable".

You'd be wrong on that. Lots of things are not copyrightable.

Alan