[PATCH] net/ethernet: Fix full name of the GPL

[PATCH] net/ethernet: Fix full name of the GPL

[Diederik de Haas]

Signed-off-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c      | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c
index 7fb819b9b89a..8b3ddc7ba5a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
    Jes Sorensen, and ne2k-pci.c by Donald Becker and Paul Gortmaker.
 
    This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
-   the GNU Public License, incorporated herein by reference.  */
+   the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.  */
 
 /* 2000-02-28: support added for Dayna and Kinetics cards by
    A.G.deWijn@phys.uu.nl */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c
index 3909c6a0af89..f9595df610d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * net-3-driver for the NI5210 card (i82586 Ethernet chip)
  *
  * This is an extension to the Linux operating system, and is covered by the
- * same Gnu Public License that covers that work.
+ * same GNU General Public License that covers that work.
  *
  * Alphacode 0.82 (96/09/29) for Linux 2.0.0 (or later)
  * Copyrights (c) 1994,1995,1996 by M.Hipp (hippm@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h
index d82eca563266..eb1ab3ffd774 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * Intel i82586 Ethernet definitions
  *
  * This is an extension to the Linux operating system, and is covered by the
- * same Gnu Public License that covers that work.
+ * same GNU General Public License that covers that work.
  *
  * copyrights (c) 1994 by Michael Hipp (hippm@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
  *
-- 
2.39.0

Re: [PATCH] net/ethernet: Fix full name of the GPL

[Simon Horman]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c      | 2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c | 2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Hi Diederik,

as we are here would it be better to just move to an SPDX header instead?

Re: [PATCH] net/ethernet: Fix full name of the GPL

[Diederik de Haas]

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On Monday, 23 January 2023 11:15:59 CET Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/8390/mac8390.c      | 2 +-
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c | 2 +-
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.h | 2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> as we are here would it be better to just move to an SPDX header instead?

Hi Simon,

Yes it would be better to move to SPDX header(s) instead.
But I now think [1] that I would be (technically) changing the license and I'm 
not in a position to do that.
While it may be reasonable to *assume* that GNU General Public License was 
meant, I think that's not enough when it comes to legal/license issues.

So please disregard my patch submission and apologies for the noise.

Regards,
  Diederik

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2281101.Yu7Ql3qPJb@prancing-pony/

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