On Thu, 23 May 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2019, Richard Fontana wrote: > > > - * > > > - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > > > - * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software > > > - * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA > > So if FSF insists on keeping this, then we need at least fix the > address. It's outdated.... > > And looking at quite some of the other boilerplate, including stuff which > originates from FSF/GNU, then there is not only outdated information, there > is also actively misleading information like the wide spread link to: > > http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > > which both bring you to the GPL v3 page. > > This one: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ > > is not really making anything clear either. And there is precedence, that the FSF did not holler for almost 6 years: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/1a4596601fd395f3afb8f82f3f840c5e00bdd57a commit 1a4596601fd395f3afb8f82f3f840c5e00bdd57a Author: Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 8 09:37:19 2013 +0200 Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX-License-Identifier to source files Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx> [trini: Fixup common/cmd_io.c] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxx> <snip .... > --- a/arch/x86/lib/string.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/string.c @@ -3,23 +3,7 @@ * This file is part of the GNU C Library. * Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. * - * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this - * project. - * - * 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 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of - * the License, or (at your option) any later version. - * - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the - * GNU General Public License for more details. - * - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, - * MA 02111-1307 USA + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */ The full file header today is: // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ /* * Copyright (C) 1991,1992,1993,1997,1998,2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * This file is part of the GNU C Library. * Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. */ There are more examples in u-boot doing the same on other files which originate from a GNU/FSF source. Thanks, tglx
