Re: [PATCH] watchdog: convert remaining drivers to use SPDX license identifier

From: William Breathitt Gray
Date: Sat Jun 22 2019 - 19:58:36 EST


On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:28:46AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> This gets rid of the unnecessary license boilerplate, and avoids
> having to deal with individual patches one by one.
>
> No functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note: Several drivers include a paragraph such as
>
> "Neither <name> nor <company> admit liability nor
> provide warranty for any of this software. This material is
> provided "AS-IS" and at no charge."
>
> Presumably this is covered by the GPL license. However, since I am not
> an attorney, I am not sure, and I opted for leaving such paragraphs in
> place.
[...]
> drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c | 9 ---------
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c
> index c176f59fea28..8ef4b0df3855 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/ebc-c384_wdt.c
> @@ -2,15 +2,6 @@
> /*
> * Watchdog timer driver for the WinSystems EBC-C384
> * Copyright (C) 2016 William Breathitt Gray
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
> - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> - *
> - * 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.
> */
> #include <linux/device.h>
> #include <linux/dmi.h>

Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@xxxxxxxxx>