This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the references to the gnu.org/licenses URL which appear in numerous drivers.
So for example this statement will still return an error: 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. However, this statement will not return an error after this patch: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 9c98100..ba3c9c3 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1963,8 +1963,7 @@ sub process { } # Check for FSF mailing addresses. - if ($rawline =~ /You should have received a copy/ || - $rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ || + if ($rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ || $rawline =~ /59 Temple Place/ || $rawline =~ /51 Franklin Street/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
