Re: [PATCH 1/7] vmw_balloon: update copyright message

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 04:03:53AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Removing the paragraph about writing to the Free Software Foundation's
> mailing address from the sample GPL notice according to checkpatch
> request.
> 
> In addition, updating the year and adding a license tag.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> index efd733472a35..1d50ed630d30 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  /*
>   * VMware Balloon driver.
>   *
> - * Copyright (C) 2000-2014, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> + * Copyright (C) 2000-2018, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>   *
>   * 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
> @@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
>   * NON INFRINGEMENT.  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, write to the Free Software
> - * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

This goes as the first line of the file, please see the documentation
files that describes how to do this properly.

Thanks,

greg k-h