Re: [PATCH 2/9] USB: storage: Remove redundant license text

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Alan, this might also be a good time to remove the "Please see [...]
for more information" bits also.  That URL hasn't worked for.... well,
a very very long time.

Matt

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
>> Now that the SPDX tag is in all USB 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: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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