Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] vmw_balloon: update copyright message

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jun 14 2018 - 01:24:41 EST


On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:54:11AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Removing the paragraph about writing to the Free Software Foundation's
> mailing address from the sample GPL notice according to checkpatch
> request.
>
> In addition, updating the year and adding a license tag.
>
> Reviewed-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> index 400a1ccefc8e..b982059ce7b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> /*
> * VMware Balloon driver.
> *
> - * Copyright (C) 2000-2014, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> + * Copyright (C) 2000-2018, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> @@ -13,10 +14,6 @@
> * NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more
> * details.

You still have a lot of boiler-plate text in here that can be removed.
Please do so.

thanks,

greg k-h