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

From: Kai Vehmanen
Date: Tue Nov 15 2022 - 12:22:06 EST


Hi,

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, Sebastian Reichel wrote:

> 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.
> I've added Greg for clarification and hopefully the latest
> mail address from Kai and Peter.
[...]
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/hsi/cs-protocol.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/hsi/cs-protocol.h
> > @@ -6,20 +6,6 @@
> > *
> > * Contact: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > * Original author: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxx>
> > - *
> > - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> > - * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > - *

sure, this looks ok. I cannot speak on behalf of my old employer,
but as one of the authors of the code in question I can confirm
this patch is ok and thus:

Acked-by: Kai Vehmanen <kvcontact@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Cc'ing my private email address.

Br, Kai