From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753965AbdKOG36 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:29:58 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56258 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750718AbdKOG3v (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2017 01:29:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:29:56 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Martin Kepplinger Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] samples: replace FSF address with web source in license notices Message-ID: <20171115062955.GA16601@kroah.com> References: <20171114095037.28563-1-martink@posteo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171114095037.28563-1-martink@posteo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote: > A few years ago the FSF moved and "59 Temple Place" is wrong. Having this > still in our source files feels old and unmaintained. > > Let's take the license statement serious and not confuse users. > > As https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html suggests, we replace the > postal address with "" in the samples > directory. What would be best is to just put the SPDX single line at the top of the files, and then remove this license "boilerplate" entirely. I've started to do that with some subsystems already (drivers/usb/ and drivers/tty/ are almost finished, see Linus's tree for details), and I've sent out a patch series for drivers/s390/ yesterday if you want to see an example of how to do it. Could you do that here instead of this patch as well? thanks, greg k-h