(resending adding lkml) (adding Josh Triplett and Jesse Brandeburg) On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 13:01 -0800, Ravi Patel wrote: > Hi Andy, Joe > > My name is Ravi Patel and I am working for AppliedMicro. > I am planning to submit APM X-Gene SoC QMTM drivers to open source after > running checkpatch.pl > I am seeing following error saying remove FSF address from my patch, which > I don't have in my source/header files. > > ERROR: Do not include the paragraph about writing to the Free Software > Foundation's mailing address from the sample GPL notice. The FSF has > changed addresses in the past, and may do so again. Linux already includes > a copy of the GPL. > #1580: FILE: include/misc/xgene/xgene_qmtm.h:19: > + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License$ > > Here is my License banner in xgene_qmtm.h > There are no tabs in my banner > > /* > * AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager driver > * > * Copyright (c) 2013 Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. > * Author: Ravi Patel <[email protected]> > * Keyur Chudgar <[email protected]> > * Fushen Chen <[email protected]> > * > * 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > * > */ > > Can you please check if the error is false positive.
Josh? Is the intent that the "copy of the GNU General Public License" statement should also be removed? Jesse had a question recently about the appropriateness of the removal given the license text. http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg262152.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
