From patchwork Thu Apr 23 15:39:03 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jonathan Corbet X-Patchwork-Id: 220685 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E31C54FCB for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32FC2075A for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729349AbgDWPjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:39:05 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54700 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726109AbgDWPjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:39:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 9392 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:39:05 PDT Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:3a1::42]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56387C09B040 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A253930A; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:39:04 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:39:03 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: "David S. Miller" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alessandro Rubini , jan.kiszka@siemens.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, kstewart@linuxfoundation.org, oliver.fendt@siemens.com Subject: [PATCH] net: meth: remove spurious copyright text Message-ID: <20200423093903.171b3999@lwn.net> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Evidently, at some point in the pre-githistorious past, drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h somehow contained some code from the "snull" driver from the Linux Device Drivers book. A comment crediting that source, asserting copyright ownership by the LDD authors, and imposing the LDD2 license terms was duly added to the file. Any code that may have been derived from snull is long gone, and the distribution terms are not GPL-compatible. Since the copyright claim is not based in fact (if it ever was), simply remove it and the distribution terms as well. Reported-by: Jan Kiszka Acked-by: Alessandro Rubini CC: Ralf Baechle CC: Kate Stewart CC: "Fendt, Oliver" Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h | 16 ---------------- 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h index 5b145c6bad60..2ba15c263e8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sgi/meth.h @@ -1,19 +1,3 @@ - -/* - * snull.h -- definitions for the network module - * - * Copyright (C) 2001 Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet - * Copyright (C) 2001 O'Reilly & Associates - * - * The source code in this file can be freely used, adapted, - * and redistributed in source or binary form, so long as an - * acknowledgment appears in derived source files. The citation - * should list that the code comes from the book "Linux Device - * Drivers" by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet, published - * by O'Reilly & Associates. No warranty is attached; - * we cannot take responsibility for errors or fitness for use. - */ - /* version dependencies have been confined to a separate file */ /* Tunable parameters */