Re: [PATCH 3/5] tty: hvc: Remove redundant license text

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On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 18:11 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Now that the SPDX tag is in all tty files, that identifies the license
> in a specific and legally-defined manner.  So the extra GPL text wording
> can be removed as it is no longer needed at all.
> 
> This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in
> the kernel describe the GPL license text.  And there's unneeded stuff
> like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never
> needed.
> 
> No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.
> 
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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