Message-ID: <1389116918.32137.16.camel@joe-AO722>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Only flag FSF address, not gnu.org URL
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, josh@joshtriplett.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:48:38 -0800
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On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 09:41 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> 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 appears to be used in numerous drivers.  The
> idea is to still allow some reference to an external copy of the GPL in the
> event that files are copied out of the kernel tree without the COPYING file.

Looks OK to me.


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