Messages in this thread | | | From | Nadav Amit <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] vmw_balloon: update copyright message | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:33:46 +0000 |
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at 10:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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@vmware.com> >> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> >> --- >> 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.
I will remove the maintainers, since it is really unsuitable.
But what else do you want me to remove? This is a standard GPL license. If I am required to remove the GPL license, I will have to run checks to ensure it is appropriate.
Thanks, Nadav
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