From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752704AbYLQX5T (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:57:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752222AbYLQX5I (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:57:08 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36331 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752155AbYLQX5H (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:57:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:45:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Neuendorffer , stable Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xilinx_hwicap: remove improper wording in license statement Message-ID: <20081217234525.GA16661@suse.de> References: <20081217192737.GA24641@kroah.com> <1229542103-24678-2-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <20081217230855.29a26318@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081217230855.29a26318@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:28:21 -0800 > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > GPLv2 doesn't allow additional restrictions to be imposed on any > > code, so this wording needs to be removed from these files. > > You only need to remove the "Use in .. expressly prohibited bit", the > rest seems like useful relevant information. As this ended up just being boiler-plate wording from an internal Xilinx template, and didn't apply at all to these files, it seemed easier to just remove the whole thing :) thanks, greg k-h