Re: [PATCH] headers: Remove some left-over license text in include/uapi/linux/hsi/

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Nov 15 2022 - 01:49:02 EST


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:01:55PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 01:56:59PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > Remove some left-over from commit e2be04c7f995 ("License cleanup: add SPDX
> > license identifier to uapi header files with a license")
> >
> > When the SPDX-License-Identifier tag has been added, the corresponding
> > license text has not been removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> IIRC that was intentional, since the plan was to seek for an
> explicit Ack from the copyright holder when removing the text.

Did that ever happen?

> I've added Greg for clarification and hopefully the latest
> mail address from Kai and Peter.

It's fine to remove license "boilerplate" text like this, especially
when it is wrong (hint, is the FSF's address correct?).

thanks,

greg k-h