Re: [PATCH 00/12] arch/s390/ license text cleanup

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Nov 24 2017 - 09:56:10 EST


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 03:38:08PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:00:31 +0100
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Here are 12 patches against linux-next of today that add SPDX
> > identifiers to the remaining files in arch/s390 that do not currently
> > have them, and then it cleans up the various different ways that the
> > license text boilerplate was written for the GPLv2 in a few files. This
> > cleanup was done in the quest to remove the 700+ different ways the
> > kernel describes GPLv2.
> >
> > No copyright headers or any other non-license-description text was
> > removed in these patches.
> >
> > FWIW, this license cleanup action has been "blessed" by IBM lawyers, but
> > feel free to check internally if you are curious.
>
> Ok, Christian picked up patches #2 and #8. I have added the remaining 10
> patches to the fixes branch of s390/linux and created an additional patch
> to have arch/s390/kernel/sthyi.c marked as GPL-2.0.

Wonderful, thanks for picking them all up and doing that additional
file, missed that one, sorry.

greg k-h