Re: [PATCH 23/24] USB: gadget: function: Remove redundant license text

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On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 04:37:38AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Monday, 6 November 2017 16:37:32 EET 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: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jerry Zhang <zhangjerry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Abdulhadi Mohamed <abdulahhadi2@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Janusz Dziedzic <januszx.dziedzic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I have however not checked whether the SPDX tag matches the license text for 
> every file (GPLv2 vs. GPLv2+), I expect that to have been verified when the 
> SPDX tags got merged.

Yes, it was, and I verified it again when I removed this license text.

thanks,

greg k-h
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