Re: [PATCHv2] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Oct 06 2013 - 19:05:41 EST


On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:23:42PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate paragraph
> directing people to write to the FSF for a copy of the GPL, since the
> FSF has moved in the past and may do so again.
>
> Make this an error for new code, but just a --strict CHK in --file mode;
> anyone interested in doing tree-wide cleanups of this form can enable
> this test explicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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