Re: [patch 1/9] block: Cleanup license notice

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On 1/17/19 4:14 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,

Applied, thanks Thomas.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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