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SubjectRe: [patch 1/9] block: Cleanup license notice
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On 1/17/19 3:14 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Remove the imprecise and sloppy:
>
> "This files is licensed under the GPL."
>
> license notice in the top level comment.
>
> 1) The file already contains a SPDX license identifier which clearly
> states that the license of the file is GPL V2 only
>
> 2) The notice resolves to GPL v1 or later for scanners which is just
> contrary to the intent of SPDX identifiers to provide clear and non
> ambiguous license information. Aside of that the value add of this
> notice is below zero,

My intent was to release this under GPL v2, hence:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

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